Like "abolish" and "defund," the symbolic use of "shut down" tells you what's permitted to sit on the societal chopping block. You can plug in anything, and see how it feels. Shut down ______. See if you can say "shut down women," for example, without feeling the twinge.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1270423154242945024 …
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Ask yourself why the people who came up with the very concept of "microaggressions" are suddenly telling you that language doesn't matter, and it's suspicious that you think it does.
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It's almost as if the key factor was never equality but power, and discourse about the former was simply a means of attaining the latter.
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Almost
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