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[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but changing words is just virtue signalling that doesn’t do anything to make anything better for anyone

.... And if you are the type of neoliberal politician that wants to pretend they care about people while never actually doing anything to help anyone other than the megacorps when you get into power -- Then this is literally all you'll ever do for people. Linguistic fuckery. Making up new words for things. Fucking around with definitions. And you know that there will be an army of people who will defend this, and shoot down people who actually want to do something on grounds that they said the "wrong" words.

The argument for 'unhoused' is that it humanises the person -- But it's really pushing it.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, this... Stop haggling with words, actually do something to fix it

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Spoiler: they won't