Rich Puchalsky :anarchism: on Nostr: Right wingers often confuse people by taking over language (see e.g. "libertarian", ...

Right wingers often confuse people by taking over language (see e.g. "libertarian", which used to mean libertarian socialist i.e. anarchist) and one of the ones that still gets me is "gender critical". For a lot of my life I would have agreed that being "gender critical" is a good thing: I would have thought of it as criticizing ideas of binary or immutable gender etc.

One of the worst ones oncoming is "feminism" itself. In our contemporary center-left where representation is really all that people agree on, a fascist woman pictured standing in a wheat field is "feminist" and if you criticize them as leader of their fascist group you're criticizing all women. TERFs even have "feminist" in their name.