Absent a genuinely deep new idea, the difficulty of executing a piece of writing scales exponentially with the number of words/phrases that you must avoid using because they are too overloaded with partisan color.
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Example. Consider these 2 lists of words and phrases:
Empathy, lived experience, justice, inclusion.
Personal responsibility, growth, freedom, individualism.
I don't even have to craft meaningful sentences, let alone a thesis, to evoke a visceral response. The lists are enough
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So if you are trying to write about a topic that involves that vocabulary, you've already determined its social fate BEFORE you craft even a single sentence.
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