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zjp | 2 months ago

If your mind jumps to sexual predation whenever you hear the word grooming, you have bigger problems than word choice at work. Do you think these people have these little breakdowns when they see "Grooming products" on a sign at Target, or do they reserve their energy solely for office politics power plays?

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wredcoll|2 months ago

You think there's a list of words that shouldn't be used in these contexts. Your list overlaps with their list in a large number of cases. You just disagree with a few of the words where your lists don't overlap. It's not exactly a big deal.

zjp|2 months ago

This is sophistry. Of course no one disagrees word choice matters. The quibbles over which words are the entire ballgame. "We all agree words matter, we just disagree about which ones" is true in the same way that "we all agree policy matters, we just disagree about which policies" is true. Yeah! That's what political disagreements are! Collapsing a disagreement on principles into a disagreement over degree is basically changing the venue of the argument.