something else we were talking about with @tithenai @drkarenlord @ArkadyMartine @Annaleen @AstroKatie the other night, in the context of those comemierda protests, how words are becoming detached from specific meanings and tied instead to emotional reactions
https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1496712611408318469
it's a very propaganda thing - not new, although some of the techniques are new - and a very advertising thing - "all-natural", "cheese product" etc. But disturbing how news sources quote these lines verbatim instead of critiquing
Think of the way "communist" and "socialist" are often used in the US, with no relation to the precise meanings of the words, just: something scary, overlapping with authoritarianism and lack of "liberty" (don't get me started on liberty). It makes it all but impossible
to discuss the very real difficulties with those systems, as well as the existence of alternatives to capitalism, or the conflation of the authoritarian-democratic axis with the capitalist-communist axis.
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