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Originally Posted by tame_deuces
And make no mistake, extremist ideologies start with the language.
I appreciate the informative post that this excerpt is culled from.
I'm not informed or educated enough in the relevant matters to comment on the rest of your post, but I would like to comment on this part. It is 100% true, and so few people realise it.
In this thread, for example, it might appear that we are debating semantics; but really, what is most of political debate really about? Hero says: Trump is x, villain says "Biden is y". "x" and "y" in this scenario are usually some combination of "socialist", "fascist", "liberal", "progressive", "conservative", "neoliberal", "communist", etc. etc. It seems that without any coherent definitions of these terms, meaningful discourse is a lost cause.
Maybe you could make one of your glossary threads like in RGT? I imagine it will be quite contentious, but it might be helpful to at least get the conversation started.
Edit: well, since I started writing this, I guess we can add "dialectical materialist" and "radical individualist" to the list.