• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    My point is that the western media constantly picks its words very carefully to dehumanise its enemies and frame its allies as moral and upstanding. “Harvesting” is anti regime language with negative connotations in people’s minds when it comes from organ harvesting.

    It’s just surprising that nobody in the western media has realised how fucking freaky they’re making it sound with this language. They usually wouldn’t use language that has a negative vibe for their allies.

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      when you can’t find a good passive voice for cumjacking dead nazis so you have to forget years of anti-china rhetoric lmao

    • insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      Ah mb, sorry for misunderstanding.

      The journos might honestly find this revolting. Current western culture is extremely prissy about death and funerary stuff. See like genocides over funerary cannibalism and shit :l, all the bonkers laws about specifically how corpse destruction/burial has to happen.

      Medical language is also extremely clinical, you do harvest organs for transplantation etc. Harvesting itself is sort of euphemistic, you butcher the innocent cow you harvest material from the cadaver. Could be that.

      It’s not like milked or secreted sperm sound better haha.

      TBH the anthropology enthusiast in me finds this grotesque and fascinating. What a fucking trip to have your mum looking to objectify a woman so she can have little youlings to grieve over.