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Thanks for avoiding the 'master race' phrase in this magazine (kbin.social)

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Thanks for avoiding the 'master race' phrase in this magazine

It is quite the problematic phrase that I wish we could erase from our cultural lexicon. Thanks for skipping it with this magazine.

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Language and words are what you make of it.
The meaning of PCMR has not been problematic ever since it became popular. Everyone knows it's tounge-in-cheek.

You'd have to really try to misinterpret it to find anything problematic about it and at that point, you're trolling.

[–] InfiniteHench@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Atemu It’s literally a phrase popularized by Nazis. There’s nothing tongue in cheek about it. When a large group of people assign their own awful meaning to a phrase, it takes on an entirely new meaning for them. It becomes a dog whistle for them. It opens the door to start spreading their bullshit.

A recent example: the far right’s malicious coopting of ‘woke.’

Another recent example: we have actual, real life Nazis walking the streets and the hallways of the US government. That didn’t happen in a vacuum.