I need to stop tweeting anything that looks like support for SJW types. Current climate seems only to reward side-pickers :(.
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I am genuinely curious about the SJW end-game. Assume they achieve all the language policing they want. What then?
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Well, I think they gain some real power (unless backlash is particularly strong). What are you thinking re "end game"?
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I don't think they do. Controlled language is not actually power language. It can stop things but not do things.
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You don't think creating a climate where everyone must pay lip service to X translates to real power gains for X?
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It's the mode that matters. If you must pay tribute or work for X, X has power. Language power, not so much.
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. Why do you need language power for that? Calling out hypocrisy is always an ongoing human activity
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Stephenson argues that in Diamond Age but it is not really true. Language policing constrains rather than specifies
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Not really. Constraining to a subcritical space where arms race of policing/dogwhistling makes society non-functional
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