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Policing language and beliefs is a lot older than communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
by circlefavshape 4y ago
Policing language and beliefs is a lot older than communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
- fidgewidge 4y agoBeliefs, yes. But which part of the Inquisition was specifically about banning long lists of specific words, replacing them with semantically identical equivalents? Perhaps they did it, my history isn't that good, but the wiki page doesn't seem to discuss it much if so.
- circlefavshape 4y agoThe Reformation replaced the Latin mass with something pretty much equivalent, but in a different language