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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 8:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is there a general term for metastatic semantic overinclusivity?

Terrorist. Racist. Colonist. Fascist. Historically-rooted and precise terms that are collectively decohering in a self-amplifying and propagating way as everyone feels increasingly free to detach more and more words from their original meanings.


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schmidtleonardyesterday at 8:56 PM

Death of the author.

GuinansEyebrowsyesterday at 9:18 PM

you have seriously got to read and understand Eco's 14 tenets of Ur-Fascism [0] if you think that contemporary applications of the term "fascist" are inaccurate in describing what's happening right now in the US.

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

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