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[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks! I think it shows the extend to which they, not just QT or TRAs but all authoritarians, are trying to manipulate us. I think the comparison between slurs and pronouns is important. No one thinks a slur uttered by someone is the target's slur. We all know slurs reflect on the slurrer and not the slurry. It's sort of the principle behind "sticks and stones maybe break my bones but words will never hurt me" which is now " ... but words are literal murder"-- as opposed to turning the name one grew up with and given at birth into a "dead name" which I guess we're not see as figurative murder or making them "former people" in the way the USSR did to people they found inconvenient.