Well, Orwell, in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language", said it was very important for people to clearly say what they actually mean instead of burying everything in dishonest rhetoric (especially rhetoric built on thoughtless clichés)
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Your position here, that everyone fundamentally deserves to be listened to and taken seriously, and if you just stop doing that that's in the same moral category as murdering them, is absurd You won't state it directly because it sounds fucking ridiculous when you say it
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So you say it with ridiculous innuendo "The witch burners haven't gone away, they've just cleverly disguised themselves in the modern world by... not burning witches anymore" Fuck off dude
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"i've been in the twitter trenches for years," i said "i'm pretty hard to shock anymore," i said "i think i've seen pretty much every dumb internet argument that there is," i said boy was i wrong i did not arrive prepared for "canceling is the new murder"
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I could have sworn the original argument was that murder is the sort of thing PC language obfuscates, e.g we're dealing with someone against abortion or something. But it looks to be far dumber than that
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I mean yeah, in a broader context I would agree that the term "violence" describes a spectrum of harms and it's useful to use the term in a broader, less literal way It's just really obnoxious that, as Traister says, conservatives only suddenly discover this when it's on them
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tbh, I do think there is a *little* bit of an argument there... Sure they get another job or whatever, there's no clear sense that the *intent* of getting someone fired is not to make them starve in the streets - that we wouldn't get them fired from the next job too if we could.
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Which allows them to talk about "destruction of livelihood" as something they have to stand against without anyone's livelihood actually having been destroyed, because they can - not entirely wrongly - portray that as a lack of ability rather than a lack of will.
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