Maybe it’s because I’m obsessive about words and enjoy overthinking things, but I do this a lot with common words and phrases that we use. The one that horrified me today was the phrase “cost of living”. It’s right in front of our faces that it literally costs money to remain alive. Did we know this already? Of course! But the fact that it’s so deeply woven into every aspect of our lives and people don’t even pay attention to what’s coming out of their mouths is wild to me. Wild, and wildly upsetting.
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“Illegals, illegal immigrant, border hopper, etc.” About as dehumanizing and awful as you can get regarding living breathing human beings who are trying to escape hellholes that the intelligence services and armies that your country created.
“Labour Market”, people can be bought and sold like cattle then disposed of when their use is up. Completely disregarding the devastating effects this has on human life.
“Less then lethal weapons” regarding chemical weapons that are banned in international warfare, acoustic weapons that can permanently deafen or kill, tasers that will still kill a person, blinding pepper spray, and batons that can beat a person to within an inch of their life.
Didn’t they originally use “non-lethal”, but then switched to this, because people were dying to the supposedly “non-lethal” shit, like rubber bullets and tasers?
Exactly, they had to maneuver their language because it was to easy to see through.
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I’ve been in a labor protest in South Korea where they blasted us with water cannons filled with pepper spray. There were a few people that died that day because it…
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knocked people down on the concrete, busting their heads open and the stuff got in their brain.
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So I was lucky to just get off with my body feeling like it was on fire for a few hours.