• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This is like saying “Everyone who’s ever called for genocide described their targets as bad people, therefore calling someone a bad person is genocidal ideology”. The word “degenerate”:

    • Doesn’t originate in genocidal ideology
    • Doesn’t have an intrinsically genocidal meaning
    • Has continuously been used in non-political contexts.

    If we keep banning every word of the dictionary that a nazi has ever used, fascists will end up the only ones able to talk…