Straight up—white people aren’t allowed to use ‘lynch’ outside of historical and etymological contexts, and men with ‘witch hunt.’ For people who accuse black people of ‘making everything about race,’ they describe anything and everything as a lynching.
bc words mean whatever they are used to mean, so we restrict the usage of words so as to keep their meaning sharp and specific. We do this with words like "holocaust" and "nazi" as well.
