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by echelon 1205 days ago
> shibboleth to distinguish people who got the right sort of education from the right sort of places

I don't think you're right. We're being told our words are wrong on a daily basis.

I think that this started with Tumblr in the early 2010's and has grown into a movement sometime during the Trump presidency.

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Does this fundamentally disagree with anything I wrote? Before Tumblr became a place where some people showed off their inscrutable social justice terminology, it was mostly a place where hipsters showed off their inscrutably cool aesthetics.
The Tumblr kids went to college and corporations