• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    We’re bashing heads over denotation vs connotation. I’m sticking with the former. Making up or ignoring definitions is a big part of what makes politics infuriating; we don’t need to do that to Luigi.

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      7 hours ago

      Then why not use another word with the same denotation, but different connotation. Why “terrorist?” Why not revolutionary, freedom fighter, martyr, or saint?