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Words matter.

Always use simple direct language.

  • Help the poor
  • Healthcare for everyone
  • Good treatment at work.

Don't use complex words.

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[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago (30 children)

Propaganda works

I’ve always said that if you really wanted communism or socialism to take off in the states you’re gonna have to call it something else

I also don’t use cis because the machine has already made that a thing people don’t want to be called

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, straight/heterosexual people didn’t want to be called that, either. They want being cis and heterosexual to just be “normal” and any variation to be abnormal. Fuck that, they’ll do the same thing to whatever euphemism you pick instead.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Oh bullshit. No one in the history of ever has been offended by "straight/heterosexual".

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -1 points 4 weeks ago

It might have something to do with the word 'cis' being used as a slur and a form of othering early on

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