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Unless you are suggesting an alternative word, IMHO, that's a great way to side line people that are actually talking about real harms.
by trinsic2 9mo ago
Unless you are suggesting an alternative word, IMHO, that's a great way to side line people that are actually talking about real harms.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> that's a great way to side line people that are actually talking about real harms Valid. This is a real linguistic process. But it absolutely debases the original term. I’m not convinced we have to choose between empathy, on one hand, and accuracy, on the other hand.
- Terr_ 9mo agoThere's also a pragmatic elephant in the room: By the time certain labels are perfectly and undeniably true to say, it's no longer safe for people to speak out and use them! So our desire for word-correctness should be tempered by our desire for word-utility.