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Re:Florida to Supreme Court: Let us regulate social networks... by sangnoir on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:54PM (#32947849)
> If not, continuing to use the misnomer is spreading misinformation.

Just like the reframing of "woke" and "critical race theory" are misinformation - right? Right?

I have accepted that reframing language is now a legitimate political tool, and from my PoV, the right has been doing it a lot, such as labelling any milquetoast protest by groups nominally on the left an "insurrection" after 1/6. I believe it's a deliberate attack akin to semantic satiation to render a word meaningless, the conservative operative bluntly admitted (on Twitter!) to successful rebranding "woke". That egg will not be unscrambled.

Re:Florida to Supreme Court: Let us regulate social networks... by andrew_ on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:19AM (#32951532)
I was raised that two wrongs don't make right. I'll continue to take the high road. I don't need to score points against anyone else.
Re:Florida to Supreme Court: Let us regulate social networks... by sangnoir on Friday September 23, 2022 @11:41AM (#32953438)
> I was raised that two wrongs don't make right.

You'll likely make a terrible politician[1] then, because that is a terrible approach in game theory when facing an opponent who defects consistently.

I was being descriptive - not prescriptive. This is now our political reality regardless of how we feel about it: politicians hold entire hearings to get 10-second sound-bites, and political operatives focus-group effective language which tends to be pithy and evocative (which gets called "misinformation" on HN when it's the other side doing it). Talking heads get coached on which phrases to use and the meme (in the original sense) gets spread and repeated by viewers/listeners. Asking people to stop using a specific term which was selected for being catchy is a losing battle - Pandora's box was opened on what are effectively PsyOps by political parties.

1. Jimmy Carter was a terrible politician in the same vein - he gave an honest answer when asked by the press if he had lusted after any woman who's not his wife. He is a good man, but that's not good politics.