they are named in a deceptive way on purpose in-group supports obvious intuitively correct philosophical stance out-group is full of crazy weirdos who hate common sense goods chastising people for being fooled by ideologues who built obfuscating terminology to fool them
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it's a reverse engineered linguistic construction identify outgroup -> define them with misrepresentation -> define self in inversion everyone wants their opponents worldview to be abstractly conflated with the name, while reserving nuance for their own in-group worldview
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True I suppose, however a stance on something almost always reflects on ones other beliefs in life.
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The quotation continues to not be the referent. I'm thinking this is a muscle that most people don't know how to flex, to separate the content from the label.
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Hmm. The literal meaning of « Pro-life » is actually opposition to abortion because one believes a fetus is a life and therefore must be preserved. No one opposing abortion for any other reason (harm to mother, desire to increase human population) would use that label.
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That's not the literal meaning, you're just pointing at a narrower group. "Pro-life" would make a perfectly decriptive name for a movement dedicated to increasing the human population, if it weren't already taken.
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this, but for ‘education’, ‘landscaping’, and the department of defense
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I love this, thanks for sharing!
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Pretending we don't know what people mean is a jolly pastime. Though in my darkest moments I fear most are not pretending
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"Labels are not definitions" is the phrase I am familiar with for expressing this (seems to come from here originally: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004227.html … )
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