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[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Homophobe is tracking closely to nazi in the list of words that have lost their former pejorative power.

[–]LtGreenCo 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

  1. Take a word with terrible historical connotations (e.g. racism, fascism)

  2. Retune the definition for "academic purposes", with the convenient side-effect that it now only pertains to your ideological opponents (racism is power plus prejudice, fascism is right-wing only)

  3. Indoctrinate students at universities with the "new and improved" definition

  4. Let them loose into the world, to land culturally influential jobs, ultimately helping spread your newspeak to the masses

  5. Weaponize the words against your opponents, and gaslight them when they throw the old definition at you, by insisting the new definitions are academic and canonical

  6. Repeat #5 until the word is overused so badly that nobody gives a shit anymore

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very succinct explanation.

They don’t see 6 as a problem because they will have made sure that the law/policy punishes the “racist”/“sexist”/“homophobic” as if they were “racist”/“sexist”/“homophobic” under the old definitions of the words and not the new ones. So the loyal Lady-in-Waiting to the late Queen is thrown under the bus by Buckingham Palace as a vile racist for asking another lady dresses in a somewhat offensive pastiche of “African” dress with a name that is what someone with little knowledge of Africa would recognise as nonsensical, where she comes from.

The loyal Lady-in-Waiting is allowed to make no arguments in defence of herself, the accusation from the “African” caricature is all that matters in the eyes of her employer and the media. The media acts as if the loyal Lady-in-Waiting had donned a white hood and screamed the hard R n-word in the face of an innocent little old black lady, because they wilfully substitute the meaning to suit their purposes.

It’s how a blatantly racist comment “The balcony is terribly white” after the coronation on a live broadcast is allowed to slide despite it not only being blatantly racist, but actually fucking meant to be racist the woman who said it actually meant that a family that was all white was terrible. But that was acceptable to the media who acted like the people making a fuss were the racists.

[–]hfxB0oyADon't piss on my head & tell me it's raining. 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're deep into step 6. I think what these people don't realize is that the next generation is always distrustful the previous one, and their techniques will be used against them while the rhetoric will be abandoned. This is seen all the time in kids who become teenagers and start to question the church. There's no difference.