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It's verbal sleight of hand in the cultural tug-of-war to emphasize or de-emphasize the future human. The point is that massaged language blunts or sharpens its
by 9x39 1y ago
It's verbal sleight of hand in the cultural tug-of-war to emphasize or de-emphasize the future human. The point is that massaged language blunts or sharpens its impact, and an org's political choices therein reflect the bias.
Meteorites don't have that baggage.
- nabwodahs 1y agoIt's a style guide; not "verbal sleight-of-hand." It codifies what terms should be used by their reporters, and refers to the AP style guide.
- dizlexic 1y agoso you're saying if they said babies in their style guide it wouldn't have any impact on perception?
- const_cast 1y agoThe baggage isn't calling fetuses what they are. The baggage and bias comes in when you lie about what a fetus is, depicting it as a human baby, which it is not. The right does that specifically to emotionally manipulate people and feed a narrative of baby killing. Who here is doing the verbal slight of hand? The people using factual terms, or the people lying? This should be an easy one to answer.