once upon a time i wrote a blog post about “conceptual gerrymandering” and it must have been really bad because nobody understood it but i think the underlying concept is still sound and important actually
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it’s what it sounds like. drawing awkward conceptual boundaries to pursue specific agendas. examples left as an exercise to the reader
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it’s bad enough that i don’t want to link it honestly but you can google for it if you try real hard and believe in yourself
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Language itself is a battlefield for cultural supremacy and control. And why shouldn't it be, when the wrong ideas, conceived of the wrong way, can cost us our lives?
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thanks 😅 it’s been awhile but iirc most of the feedback i got on it was like “not really sure what you’re trying to say here or why”
i would write it v differently now also
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Yeah, how you draw the boundaries can really affect the way people see things. The crudest way is to simply load negative-valence words into the same bucket as your political opponents. But people do it in more subtle ways too.
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The problem about talking about case studies is that a lot of places this is happening writ large has malicious entities doing so.
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