It's not unlike MRAs / Incels taking "The Matrix," whose pill metaphor was not only clearly a liberal one, but ended up being a powerful statement in transgender self-understanding. But the MRAs corrupted using it to mean "women are evil controllers" and other heinous shit.
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But taking these and powerful words / metaphors away IS the entire point. Just as Fake News originally started as our way of literally identifying harmful falsified stories from Macedonia, Trump immediately usurped to declare war on CNN and the media itself.
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The point is that upending language can be one of the most dangerous / powerful things on the planet, because it inverts reality itself and makes discussion impossible. We up is down, there's not foothold to even begin talking from a rational place. It forges the Tower of Babel.
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the corruption you speak of also happened with "White Knight" which was a feminist shorthand for what is now called NiceGuy™ and now WK means "Anyone who wants to help a woman in any circumstance because helping women is silly."
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So was Trump’s election run. Words and actions mean things. They have consequences.
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January has April showers, and two and two always makes a five...
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I fully lost whatever respect I had for him.
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when the edible hits
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