/lit/ - Literature

>>14277940
>how racists twist language to manipulate people

Orwell predicted that the bad guys would try to "strip language down to the bone" so that it was impossible to talk about anything but what they wanted.

In reality, words develop their own meanings whether your want them to or not. Replace "nigger" with "urban youths", and 5th-graders will start calling each other "urban youths" instead. So what actually happened is that the meanings of words change constantly, and you have to memorize the latest meaning to show your loyalty.

The way racists, in particular, use this is by having double meanings for the same word (if the Indians get killed it's a battle; if the settlers get killed it's a massacre). Then they can maintain their fantasy that it's who you are, not what you do, that matters.

Try it at home! Switch some euphemisms around ("The Battle of Mountain Meadows", "The Bunker Hill Massacre") and see who gets mad!

>>13330409
The Name of the Rose

"Scientific Advancement" isn't a real unit BTW. Not that I disagree with what they're trying to say.