Totally agree. People sometimes want to skip over a focus on words and language but choice of words and being specific is CRUCIAL in my opinion when it comes to political and social commentary.
Giving a name to abuses is often the first step to ending them. I was impressed to learn that the term "McCarthyism" was invented by a political cartoonist, Herb Block.pic.twitter.com/5GnBYxdFmS
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It would be more impressive if the name construction had something more to it than adding ‘ism’ to the end of someone’s name!
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In this case that was the optimal name, because the phenomenon was concentrated in one person, and a particularly unsavory person to boot.
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wokeism?
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It is unfortunate that this works for good and bad things, real and partially made up. The first step to making something good be considered cringe is also to memeify it.
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There is, here too, no real way to avoid reliance on good judgement.
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For gerrymandering, I think naming it helped increase awareness and thereby outlawing it.
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I’d have to think, on the flip side, this is what has happened with “defund the police”.
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wasn’t witch-hunt or “Salem witch trials” more memorable?
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