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"The histories of these words are complex and the concepts we have inherited are unruly."

That's fair. Great point even! But I'm only interested in this topic relative to the scorched-earth policy of mccarthyism and its legacy which obviously represents a pretty elaborate social engineering project on behalf of the worst sort of people.

Like, I'm not trying to polish my false idols here, only very suspicious and hostile to the rich bastards and their clueless muppets trying to ram big chunks of radical history down the memory hole for their own obvious reasons. I have a very different conversation with people who I know for sure aren't trying to do that. I also doubt most good faith people who frequent this site are trying to do that but the trolls, The TROLLS …