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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Mar 2021

    Since the 90s I've felt identity left puts too much energy into language as an agent for social change but I also feel that centrist liberals & conservatives put too much energy into resisting language changes as a way of upholding the status quo. Language isn't that important!

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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Mar 2021

        I mean obviously language is crucial for communication and around the edges shapes perception but c'mon. It's social and material realities that are the base of existence. Undo the cultural turn!

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      1. Alesis Turner‏ @Alesis_Turner 10 Mar 2021
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        I think everyone spent years trying to find the magic words that will allow people to abandon bigotry and it turns out that problem wasn’t the words. It was the bigotry.

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      2. Eric the Red‏ @RealEric4Real 10 Mar 2021
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        Death tax, right to work, etc would beg to differ

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      3. D.C. Ober‏ @ober_d 10 Mar 2021
        Replying to @RealEric4Real @HeerJeet

        Yep. I don't think it's a coincidence that the triumph of the right starting with the Reagan era coincided with near total control over public discourse.

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      1. Quaker in a Basement‏ @JoeMoran11 10 Mar 2021
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        O really? Did you miss the list of key words and phrases Frank Luntz and Newt Gingrich used to essentially launch the GOP as we know it today?

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Mar 2021
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        ya got me there.

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      1. Coleman Ridge‏ @ColemanRidge 10 Mar 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Agreed. The reason to change it is that it is easy, so why not? The reason that it is easy is that it's not attached to anything structural, only sometimes to another person's feelings.

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      2. drew beck‏ @drewbeck 10 Mar 2021
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        At the same time the history wrestling with language has well positioned the left to really work at inclusion across many identities, which imo is a precondition for the beautiful future.

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      3. drew beck‏ @drewbeck 10 Mar 2021
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        Language was also the way to talk about many identities when lots of lefties were still hammering class-over-all I think language is a culture tool, too, and so is utilized a lot when culture was the space the left had the ability to move, vs economics

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