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[–] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

maybe bring back totalitarian and use it against countries like the US? have a word that, like Huey P. Newton said regarding coining the term 'pig' for police, "highlights the contradiction", in this case, between the selective usage of a word and it's inherent meaning, none of which is understandable without contradictions from a prescriptive linguistic context

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are probably right, I was really just trying to talk about how, as it currently stands, the people who use the term are basically just expressing either that they fell for a thought-terminating cliche or are expecting their audience to fall for it.