>Word seems interchangeable nowadays You're so close to understanding. This has always happened. When you have opinions people find objectionable it tends to

>Word seems interchangeable nowadays You're so close to understanding. This has always happened. When you have opinions people find objectionable it tends to make you less popular with those people. For some reason a few years ago we decided that if these ideas are coming from a particular group it's now a special thing deserving of a new term. It's a dumb term. If you want to have soft power you need to not say all your vile opinions out loud, that's how the human animal has worked for millions of years.