• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    I have found a lot of people unnecessarily internalize propaganda. Purity tests, wokeness, white knighting, bleeding heart, etc are all terms that are meant to disparage people. Unfortunately, because of the ubiquitous nature of these words and phrases the people who they are meant to disparage adopt these terms themselves to their detriment.

    I personally don’t think people should use these terms at all as they just give credence to those who use them to discredit people who are actually doing their best to make things right. These terms are beyond cynical and are actually very misanthropic in nature.

    • Tinidril@midwest.social
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      In the case of the Democratic establishment, this is exactly the meaning they intend to project. They just want to be able to deny it at the same time while getting well meaning normies to unthinkingly repeat the disparaging rhetoric against progressives.

      Here’s a great primer to some of their other vocabulary of choice.