Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
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Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
1/ “A strikingly cyclical effort to sanitize speech has contributed to widespread misunderstanding of psychoanalytic tradition. Over time, whatever the original intentions of those people who coined any specific psychological term, labels for certain conditions ineluctably come
Jonathan Shedlerx.comThe word “racism” went out of fashion in the liberal haze of racial progress—Obama’s political brand—and conservatives started to treat racism as the equivalent to the N-word, a vicious pejorative rather than a descriptive term. With the word itself becoming radioactive to some, passé to others, some well-meaning Americans started consciously and p
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
abusing such terms is dangerous: it drains them of their intended meaning, their legibility, and their power.