• Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    We can’t even agree on what most of these words mean, much less get the majority of people to care about whether we adhere to them. I know multiple people who think the entirety of science is wrong, and that hispanic people don’t have the human right of safe housing, even when legal citizens.

    • P1k1e@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      I think the point here is less about actually throwing these terms around and more about the absurdity that it’s basically already like this and folks ain’t being honest about it

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Your point is that the terms on the first panel are more clear?

      Well, either way, calling xenophobia as “barbarism” is a nice ironical way for the language to evolve.

      • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        My point is that the time when we might have found the right words to fix things is almost certainly over. It’s now time to start fighting against injustice with real action.

    • jawa22
      11·
      9 months ago

      I was under the impression that quackery was specific to medicine.

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        I think you’re right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the “practices or pretensions of a quack”, which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I’m not a native speaker, however… :)

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    We cant even agree on what truth vs lies is, or what either of them mean. a lie is okay as long as its convenient ,truth must be hidden if it hurts us

    In a world where truth is now fluid, we need to learn some Russian, just one word, a loanword “Vranyo” Literally it mean lies. but its used in the context “Im lying, you know Im lying, I know that you know Im lying, but you aren’t going to do shit, and I dont care even if you did”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vranyo

    Vranyo has infected western society Its how government operates, its how gangsters operate. convenientley, a lot of the governments and gangsters are now one in the same.

  • Cavemanfreak@programming.dev
    4·
    9 months ago

    I’m quite miffed that the order of the comparisons in the second panel vary…

    1. Bad vs good
    2. Good vs bad
    3. Good vs bad
    4. Good vs bad
    5. Bad vs good
    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      I think that’s intentional. It’s swapped in the first panel too. It appears more impartial this way.