• tree_frog@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    All right so you were just being pedantic.

    Because my examples did not make it sound appealing lol

    And I personally prefer to use neutral words, as folks have a lot of defense mechanisms toward words with negative connotations.

    Meaning, they will just tune it out.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes, you’re right. I’m being pedantic. I should have forewarned that, my bad.

      And you’re also right that people tend to tune out negative words. At first, sure. But, assuming you’re American, I bet I could cause some cognitive dissonance in you if you I use the right ones. Isolationism isn’t one of those yet, but in 30 years we need that word to sound the same as “Feudalism”

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        11 hours ago

        No you did mention maybe you’re being pedantic, that’s why I brought it back up. I wasn’t trying to be a bitch lol

        And yeah, isolationist really is a more accurate term. However I’m thinking that the right has indoctrinated their voter base against it.

        I don’t have hard evidence for that argument, it’s just the vibe I get living here.

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          10 hours ago

          I can’t say for sure how much indoctrination has happened, but I remember hearing “isolationism” as a sort of bogeyman in history classes. So there’s at least that for some people

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            9 hours ago

            Yeah, I picked up that connotation learning about world war II and how that played out.

            But I don’t exactly trust our education system to have gotten that message to everybody. Especially with all the noise from the white nationalists.