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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by raxxorraxor on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:02AM (#33625345)
No, political correct is most often the opposite. It tries to obfuscate. Certainly not gain precision.
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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by LAC-Tech on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:41PM (#33628267)
You're looking at it too literally.

Enforcing others to change their language is mostly about power. Any feel good explanations of why it needs to change is justification for executing that power.

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Re:Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid by raxxorraxor on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:34AM (#33638022)
True, it is about the prerogative of interpretation and to backhandedly assign motivation to someone that uses certain terms to mostly discredit them.

There are some that just mean well, but even then, the method is questionable.

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