• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Is there a term for this kind of “our brave soldiers, their barbaric hordes” terminology? Because I’m increasingly feeling like most liberal politics can be boiled down to it

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          17 hours ago

          it seems very difficult to encapsulate in a single term, so maybe simply “liberal chauvinism”? It is a typical shitlib mentality after all.

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          17 hours ago

          Double standard, doublespeak and hypocrisy all seem applicable. So maybe like chauvinistic double standard or exceptionalist hypocrisy or some combination thereof. It does feel like there’s a lack of terminology with broad appeal in this respect.

          Maybe like “state(/applicable noun) sugar coating” gets the message across in a way that even those with the reading age of a 9 year old might get the gist of.

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      If there’s no term for it, I’m gonna call it Blairspeak, named after Eric Blair.