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The article definitely elides that the words didn't become loaded on their own, but there were deliberate projects and fights to load words like "welfare" with
by awkward 2y ago
The article definitely elides that the words didn't become loaded on their own, but there were deliberate projects and fights to load words like "welfare" with baggage. While "differently abled" is the result of disability activists gaining new ground, many of the other renamings listed represent retreats from contested territory.
- alpinisme 2y agoI’m also skeptical that all of the things the article lumps under the umbrella “euphemism” are really the same thing or best described by that word. But to your point “retreats from contested territory” are probably the best examples of where that label would be appropriate