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Changing terms appear to have enough meaning to compel you to try to stamp out others usage of language. Isn’t trying to impose your view of the necessity of th

Changing terms appear to have enough meaning to compel you to try to stamp out others usage of language. Isn’t trying to impose your view of the necessity of the word “homeless” its own sort of virtue signaling, just of another virtue? (In this case, I’d assume the virtue you attempt to espouse is that of adherence to traditional social mores from your youth?)

throwawayacc3 4y ago
It's not "imposing the necessity of the word", it's calling out the nonsensical euphemistic language that gets churned out by the most neurotic of society and then imposed upon everyone. George Carlin called this specific phenomenon out decades ago [0]. You can kvetch about using words that signal your virtue, but homelessness has a codified definition [1]. [0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY https://youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218239/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218239/