• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, because only one side cares about language and the words we use.

    People across the political spectrum care. But views vary significantly around what words and language should be encouraged and what should be censored.

    Nobody with an ounce of authority is actually against censorship of one degree or another. FFS, some of the biggest modern media censors are the wanna-be libertarian scalds of the Obama administration (Bari Weiss being an obvious example). Censorship is a method of shaping public perception and encouraging civil actions of one sort or another. The irony of Kirk’s death is that he repeatedly extolled the virtues of political violence only to eat shit when one of his own Groyper buddies went off the reservation. Hell, his final breath was expended snarkily deflecting the threat of mass shootings onto “gang violence”.

    Anyone who says they don’t care about the political use of language is either nakedly naive or blowing smoke up your ass. And you can often tell one from the other by asking whether they’re old enough to buy their own beer.