Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I say this as someone who tries to use language with sensitivity and deference to reasonable requests, but even as someone who watches these things closely, I'm surprised all the time at some dustup or other about a word that I didn't even know bothered anyone. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 2, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

That's because most of these efforts to control language will not succeed, especially as they proliferate so much that no one can keep track of them all even if they wanted to do so, which many people don't. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 2, 2022

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

The cumulative effect is to build a minefield of politeness norms that are most unintelligible to people with the least social ties to the educated classes--and those norms don't even guarantee better treatment of anyone, just more euphemism treadmill taboos. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 2, 2022