As I have argued many times in the past, ordinary people and Leftist activists don’t speak the same language or even use language for the same purposes.
Ordinary people use language to communicate with others, and hence, we work hard to ensure that what we say creates a correspondence between what we are thinking and what our interlocutors understand. People lie, of course, but generally speaking words mean the same thing to us as they do to whom we are speaking. It’s an essential part of language.
“It’s ‘homophobic violence’ to notice that Hamas is responsible for violence against gay people.”
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Leftists don’t use language that way. Postmodernism, critical theory, or whatever label you want to use for the ideology, holds that words are always expressions of…
