Also 3. encouraged honest-to-goodness racists to come back out of the woodwork, knowing that the word has lost its power to single them out. https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1155901001246765057 …
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Agreed. I think the way segments of our society have overused and mischaracterized the word socialism has had a similar effect.
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This really goes to noxious political advice about "framing" that Lakoff was pushing as a political weapon back in the early 2000s.
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Like people calling everything they don't like "socialist" or "identity politics."
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Or "infanticide," or "destructive of the Constitutional order." None of that bad faith loose talk around here.
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And both de-sensitize the audience and crowd our other, arguably important matters.
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1) Yes, there is a lot of exaggeration and bad faith and cynicism. 2) If people don't care about or don't understand racism/xenophobia cause of that, the education system or the human heart is worse than thought.
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Good rule of thumb: The human heart is always worse than you think it is.
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I also see a split in the way elites and non-elites define racism. Statements that are obviously racist to those who use words for a living are not obviously racist to those who (even though they may be just as well educated and intelligent in their own field) do not.
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McCain and Romney were painted as Nazi racist's until they were done serving the Left's purposes.
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