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by jadedhacker 2995 days ago
That's kind of a confusing line of questioning. People are pointing out problems yes (I often agree with them, I'm a socialist), but that doesn't change the definitions of words. If we muddy the words, we won't even know what we're talking about and that favors the status quo. The remedy for ambiguity is clarity.
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> the definitions of words.

...is extremely ambiguous, context dependent, variable. Especially for words ending in '-ism'.

> The remedy for ambiguity is clarity.

Then don't use words from the extreme end of the range of vapor words. Instead, talk about something concrete.