We finally figured out that "human rights" is a really powerful phrase and now we're slapping it on anything we need to get sympathy for. It's basically the heroic version of the villainous "racism"
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Like, your famuly supports a well intentioned policy that might have some unintentional bad side effects? They're a HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATER and how dare you suggest we be kind to then
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The problem with much of it is the insistence that products which are the fruits of others' labor is a "human right."
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Seems like it happens to ~all emotionally laden words, that's the way the incentive gradient goes 😕
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the better analog is what happened to “free speech.” i’m pretty concerned about this; that whole cluster of ideas is a perfectly decent, normie-accessible moral foundation and the left should not collude in its being appropriated and definitively poisoned by right-wing goblins
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Even given the euphemism treadmill, I see this as progress over defending principles as "divine rights", which make it much easier to argue for the worst atrocities.
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