I'm working with the definition that exists to define systems of oppression. There is no other meaningful or useful definition. https://twitter.com/BullCityVA/status/796746534343835648 …
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i mean, there's the live usage, the one a descriptivist would employ
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And there's a concerted effort to make that definition obsolete/disfavored.
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which is the sort of thing we call "prescriptivism", no? which we might expect to backfire just on that basis
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It's more the disciplinary jargon definition supplanting the other definition in popular discourse.
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we could say that, yeah, but it'd be pretty incomplete
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i think anti-oppressive praxis consisting of trying to control what's sayable by manipulating definitions is past its sell-by date
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