• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Doesn’t matter if they’re “made up”.

    The conditions that precipitated those words have always existed. The resistance to creating the terms doesn’t make the conditions not exist, it just means that the disagreeable person can justify to themselves that they don’t have to acknowledge them if they can avoid the words.

    IOW, terms can help legitimize. They don’t want the conditions legitimized so they don’t have to acknowledge them.