Yeah pretty much. Which is a little disturbing because with the waters so muddied, it makes it difficult to know when these things are really happening.
It’s already a problem when you say a country is fascist because the reply is often “well people call everything fascist now.” And they aren’t wrong.
Soon it will be “people call everything a genocide now.” The power of these words are getting diluted by attention seekers. It’s becoming a word that no longer grabs attention anymore.
Do you deny that Iran is committing genocide. Then you’re the genocide denialist!
Or maybe we shouldn’t weaponize the word genocide and discuss serious issues like adults instead of playing word games?
They may enter definitional or rhetorical argumentation.
We’re reading wikipedia now?
Here’s some nice light reading on wikipedia for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
On the internet words like terrorist, fascist, and genocide seemingly has lost all meaning. It’s just an expression of dumb emotions.
Yeah pretty much. Which is a little disturbing because with the waters so muddied, it makes it difficult to know when these things are really happening.
It’s already a problem when you say a country is fascist because the reply is often “well people call everything fascist now.” And they aren’t wrong.
Soon it will be “people call everything a genocide now.” The power of these words are getting diluted by attention seekers. It’s becoming a word that no longer grabs attention anymore.