• Stern@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The right want to be seen as the normal ones, and make the mythical “other” the deviant radical. Calling them weird destroys that stance in a way that all the other stuff can’t.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It really has been fascinating watching the meltdown over such a simple word. If only we’d realized how simple it was earlier.