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redditors currently discovering that the drawbacks of calling everyone left of bernie a tankie is that people just stop caring about the word tankie (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shot:

they are a legitimate threat to freedom and to anti-authoritarian leftists,

Chaser:

we shouldn't allow these people to exist in the internet free

https://old.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/197l9ik/tankie_is_not_offensive_anymore/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to actioning this though it's a pretty new idea for me. Orgs that created new language for other things would have better ideas/experience. Lgbt orgs invented tonnes of new language for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that, besides "buzzword", a term that people use that seems to specifically line up with what you've talked about is "scare word", a term that is annoying to research for obvious reasons, but we can find an attestation of its use to describe political rhetoric here and there.

A few more:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716728643/socialism-isn-t-the-scare-word-it-once-was

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/truman-socialism-scare-word/

Hope this helps. I also saw "scare term" and "devil word" referenced in a pop-linguistics article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I am almost certain that there is some extremely niche writing about this but that it uses terminology we're not aware of so finding it is fucking impossible.

These are good leads though. Gonna spend a couple weeks churning this over and digging around. Something is gonna pop out.