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jopepa@lemmy.world 8 months agoI don’t really understand your point. Portmanteaus and coining new words are useful in conveying complex concepts, though. If you wanted to have a conversation about parentification would you rather have one word to encompass that or have to say “the effect of having to be a care giver to your caregivers during your formative years” every time you need to reference that concept in the discussion.
What makes that a mutilation instead of more efficient?
The racism thing is confusing because racism encompasses both forms but there are specific descriptors for unique expressions of the same thing. Just like a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isn’t necessarily a square. That’s not really redefining, systemic racism has been racism the whole time, too. We’re just aware enough to have discussions about the specific ways it effects society today.
xor@infosec.pub 8 months ago
no, it’s not like that. the thing i’m arguing against is like saying a square isn’t a rectangle anymore…
it’s saying racism is not discrimination based on someone’s perceived race, and that it’s only systemic racism.
no, it absolutely has not… there’s a reason “systemic racism” has “systemic” in it…
it’s to make a distinction…
you can say systemic racism is a subset of racism in general… but really it isn’t, it’s racism applied to a system.
like, a car is not a subset of “blue”, but i can have a blue car…
and you missed the end point where people claim it’s impossible to be racist against white people… when in fact it very much is possible and not that rare… (definitely not the biggest problem in the world, but it is a thing)
and with “parentification”, because it’s just adding ification on the end to make it sound smarter, when “child parenting” or “children forced to do things they’re too young to do”
or… anything other than that dumb term, which definitely hurts any attempts to discuss it and be taken seriously…
jopepa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“-ification” is a suffix about transformation and becoming so the word works fine. Your argument it is just anti-intellectualist opinion. So who cares?
I wouldn’t say I’m an intellectualist, but I am an anti-anti-intellectualist. Doesn’t it makes me sound so smart? Your analogy isn’t one and your points make no sense. You’re shoe horning a white plight angle into this convo for no reason. You’re downvoting me for challenging you to better represent your point of view.
So, good faith’s dried up, get bent asshole.
xor@infosec.pub 8 months ago
what in the flying fuck are you talking about?
i even said “not the biggest problem” to make it very clear it’s not a problem… it’s just a matter of meanings of words.
you getting all worked up over a conversation about word’s meanings and wordsmithing shows me more than i want to know about you…
jopepa@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The fact that you’re bringing it up at all indicates that you haven’t been paying enough attention to the problems and conversations about racism.
Even your language “not the biggest problem” does not mean “not a problem” it literally means second place or lower. Which is a lot of wiggle room for validating white rights ideologues.