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Mind your language

The language of the victimhood war

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

Language is used in a weird way in the victimhood war, where those who see themselves without agency bravely speak their truth to power. Their truth cannot be negated merely by examining the evidence, for it derives from lived experience. The powerful are axiomatically guilty, and must be called out for their behaviour or behaviours, as the new usage puts it.

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