Groomers gonna groom - Parents called “homophobic” for objecting to illustrations of men in bondage gear and women with mastectomy scars in children’s picture book “Grandad’s Pride”

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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 -  (2 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 -  (1 child)

  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

[–]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.