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As long as we're ranting about coworkers' and acquaintances' word choices last week, can we stop calling our political opponents "literally horrible terrible people" and suggesting that they ought to be disenfranchised and maybe sterilized? Also, the word "backwards": it just means "someone who doesn't agree with my preferred narrative of social progress". It's really good at making you feel good about yourself, and for looking down on people, but it doesn't actually mean anything.



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