Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by faeriechangling on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:03PM
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When people use long winded euphemistic language directed at me I feel condescended to in direct proportion to the extra syllables used. The fact somebody is spending energy talking in awkward ways only to me reminds me of the fact that I'm in the class of people that are talked euphemistically about. So I've never understood what the point of such language actually was.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by throwaway_au_1 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:25PM
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Great point. Would it be a stretch to suggest that this language is in reality just another medium for virtue signalling?
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by faeriechangling on Monday December 19, 2022 @09:42PM
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What people in the thread said is that they’re more comfortable saying or hearing things phrased a certain way, so that’s why they use that phrasing. Sure you can use language as a means of virtue signalling though.
For me though, I simply see being offbeat phrasing as being stigmatizing in practice, it ends up drawing more attention to whatever was being described.