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    1. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

      So, uh. If your viewpoint is that we shouldn't use the term "concentration camp" because the right turned it into an argument over terminology. What's your magic solution that you think they *can't* do that with?

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    2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

      People say "we fall for this every time!" but what we fall for, collectively, is the fallacy that *we* are the problem, that our *terminology* or *tone* is what the right objects to.

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    3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

      There is no tone urgent enough that it can accomplish something, no description of right-wing policies and ideology honest enough to accomplish anything, that they will accept.

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      Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

      If we keep walking back our language and our approach until it's acceptable to them... we wind up advocating for their positions. And they shift right and attack the position we took up for them as being radical leftwing communist extremism. (See: "ObamaCare".)

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        2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          If we try to outsmart them by not using a label for the concentration camps they can object to, we'll wind up calling it protective custody.

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        3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          The way we avoid falling into the trap of fighting them over terminology is: we don't fight. We just say the words and keep moving. It would be easier to do this if the media gave us as much deference as they do the right, whom they let set the frame without question. But.

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        4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          "But we're handing them ammunition!" They own a munitions factory. They make their ammo. They recycle whatever's lying around into ammo and they shoot us with it. Every time. Hindsight bias says "We could have avoided that."

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        5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          If we call them concentration camps and they hammer us with that, hindsight bias says "We could have avoided that by not using those words!" So we call them internment camps, and we get 24 hours of "Is this disrespectful to Japanese-Americans?"

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        6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          We call them prisons and we get 24 hours of "Actually this is not part of the penal system." and "They're saying we're putting children in prison, which is clearly hyperbolic. They get cookies." Whatever words you choose are the words they'll question.

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        7. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          See, the idea that we could do an end run around them on this presupposes that they were there waiting with bated breath, just all lined up behind the door that magically opens for the exact password to spring out and attack us. And if we didn't say it, they'd be stuck.

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        8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          But they weren't! They didn't have a specific plan that hinged on us doing a specific thing! They are not movie villain mastermind who somehow know exactly what turns and twists the heroes will take! Their plan will not fall apart if we do something else!

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        9. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          Their plan is much simpler, and the rebuttal phase has one step: 1. Whatever we their opponents say is WRONG.

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        10. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          Time and time I watch us collectively make this mistake. Sitting out for fear of any action playing into their hands. Trying to figure out what Trump or Bannon or anyone is "counting on" and then doing the opposite, which usually means doing nothing.

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        11. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 19 Jun 2019

          We lost SO MUCH momentum in the early days, so many chances for organization, so much opportunity to grind the regime to a halt, because of fear that any real resistance was "playing into their hands", any talk of where we were heading was "alarmism".

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