“Plant-based” became popular for people who wanted to adopt many key ideas from veganism while distancing themselves from what they saw as extremist animal rights or other political positions.
Are there other examples of terms invented to adopt “edited” versions of stances?
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Climate action/decarbonization —> terraforming
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Hm
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"Open source" as opposed to "free software" (GPL)
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This feels more like a dogwhistle than a genuine recoding with distancing edits though 🤔
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Meant to qt this above
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"race realist" seems like the obvious one
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Organic was invented to cover up antisemitism against fertilizer and pesticide companies
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