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    1. 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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      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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        2. Dump Ump‏ @DumpOnTheUmp 10 Mar 2021
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          Yeah, but then there are laws

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 10 Mar 2021
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          Laws are meaningless without the guns to uphold them.

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        1. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 10 Mar 2021
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          If you work with symbols and information all day, you're of course aware of how powerful they can be, and that makes it easy to fall into magical thinking.

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        1. drew beck‏ @drewbeck 10 Mar 2021
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          How do you create cross-identity solidarity when some of the workers still refer to the others by the n-word? Imo language is a wedge that has led to a lot more possibilities.

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        2. Zac Gershberg‏ @zgersh1 10 Mar 2021
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          See also: Sidney Hook, "I don't get Kenneth Burke"

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        3. Lorca Did Nothing Wrong!  ⚾️‏ @DearLeaderLorca 10 Mar 2021
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          https://www.kbjournal.org/benedict_giamo  "Shitney Hook." lol

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        1. Lorca Did Nothing Wrong!  ⚾️‏ @DearLeaderLorca 10 Mar 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Love u but disagree. Language, symbology, semiotics, those are part of constructing our social realities. Now, I can roll with a "people put too much importance on small language transgressions" but language itself is how we interpret material realities in the first place.

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        2. J.B.M. (he/him)‏ @vijamsonic 10 Mar 2021
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          Interesting to think of the tensions. I have learned from folks that in the face of social injustices and the slow pace of change (for those living and suffering now), language offers both a real and imaginal world to exist and survive in. Material worlds burn them out.

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        3. J.B.M. (he/him)‏ @vijamsonic 10 Mar 2021
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          Perhaps your observation on time spent on language reflects the real lives of the people on the left who have spent so much time on language? That they are, in fact, the most vulnerable and victimized by the material realities that, like language, resists them. Burns them out.

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        1. r‏ @rorpack 11 Mar 2021
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          talk about the medium undermining the message

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