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The March of Euphemism | www.splicetoday.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Anyone can be trained by a schedule of reinforcement not to produce unapproved sounds. Anyone with a little practice can sound like a social justice warrior. After you force them to express themselves in the manner you deem liberating, they can keep right on with the oppression and the abuse, but they’ll be much harder to detect. Euphemisms allow us to be bad people while appearing to be good, even to ourselves: they are masks; they function as lies.
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