i’m not sure what your point is though. That we shouldn’t use amoral descriptionist language when describing social forces? That we should seek to control public common language with an iron fist (something historically not very realistic)?
That a white supremacist society coopted a revolutionary idea and blunted it is not surprising, it’s what it does to all revolutionary ideas it gets ahold of. Is that any reason to stop having revolutionary ideas?
I thought you were getting at the point that “homophobia” is a problematic and not useful term because it isn’t inherently loaded with enough moral judgment against homophobes (compared to something like ‘gay hate’ or ‘anti-gay bigotry’), or that the colloquial definition that has been adopted being less accurate means we should retroactively change our own descriptions and accurate usage of the term within sociology and left-politics.
Personally, I’m completely fine with the -phobia and -phobic suffixes to describe tendencies among populations and think it’s better than using moralistic terms when it comes to understanding social forces at play correctly. It just depends on the context. If you’re hurling invectives at a specific reactionary, go for the moralist jabs if it is effective with your current audience. If you’re trying to do a sociological description of the forces of society among fellow comrades I think we should stick to the cold autopsy approach.
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i’m not sure what your point is though. That we shouldn’t use amoral descriptionist language when describing social forces? That we should seek to control public common language with an iron fist (something historically not very realistic)?
That a white supremacist society coopted a revolutionary idea and blunted it is not surprising, it’s what it does to all revolutionary ideas it gets ahold of. Is that any reason to stop having revolutionary ideas?
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I thought you were getting at the point that “homophobia” is a problematic and not useful term because it isn’t inherently loaded with enough moral judgment against homophobes (compared to something like ‘gay hate’ or ‘anti-gay bigotry’), or that the colloquial definition that has been adopted being less accurate means we should retroactively change our own descriptions and accurate usage of the term within sociology and left-politics.
Personally, I’m completely fine with the -phobia and -phobic suffixes to describe tendencies among populations and think it’s better than using moralistic terms when it comes to understanding social forces at play correctly. It just depends on the context. If you’re hurling invectives at a specific reactionary, go for the moralist jabs if it is effective with your current audience. If you’re trying to do a sociological description of the forces of society among fellow comrades I think we should stick to the cold autopsy approach.