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@ai @MercurialBlack @gav This reminds me of an article I read. A critique of leftist academia where policing language is seen as something that can change the world; rather than language being a descriptor of how we already view the world. This entire debate is reminiscent of that, where I believe that transphobia and transmisia and anti-transgender are all describing the same phenomena, and as such an artificial attempt to change thinking by interchanging these words is fruitless. Meanwhile you and Mercurial are arguing that these words form the basis of the phenomena itself, and that by changing the word we change the view of the world.
I can't find the article unfortunately. You'd like it a lot I think
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The phenomenon will exist independent of the word used to describe it, but one can influence how one feels about it by manipulating language
Which isn't a long-term solution, since inevitably, either the word will decay to represent what it's meant to describe after repeated use, or people will see it used sufficiently often in a different context that it'll become decouple from the concept.
Regardless it pisses me off.
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