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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by tomp on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:23PM (#24899325)
> I think it would be better if there was more understanding of what people were talking about when they said "racism"

You do realize that one of the main reasons for redefining words is to cause confusion?

As in, we'll take this word with narrow meaning and then massively expand the meaning in order to fight our cause?

As in, nobody wants to be accused of being racist so if we reuse the word "racist" for something else we'll be able to manipulate the discourse?

If they actually used the words as they mean, people would realize that they're complaining about nothing.

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by JoeAltmaier on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:25PM (#24899343)
Well, about real things. But using the wrong words, perhaps out of frustration.

The other unfair argument is to refute a minor point and claim there's nothing left to discuss. Like you did right there.

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