1000%, if we don't use our language carefully then we only ruin our own linguistic power to fight the things we don't want to see in the world. People do not respect how much we lose by being sloppy and cheap with our language.

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It’s of course by design. Newspeak. Like, calling it inflation when it’s price increases. Calling it a vaccine when it’s not. Like calling him a woman when it’s a man. Like calling it capitalism when it’s communism. Etc etc. We are in trouble. We can’t clearly communicate.