I used to think my brain would always fight back against using "they/them" as singular pronouns for people. Not morally, but because it was something I'd been specifically taught NOT to do in grammar lessons. And now I'm just realizing, it is often my automatic default for folks.
I don't mention that to be like "look at my fabulous lived politics," I mention it because I think there are a lot of practices folks think of as affected or insincere or unnatural because they feel new and uncomfortable.
And I think if we look at the way the right has taken hold of a lot of younger people, it's by telling them that those feelings of discomfort are actually inflicted pain-- a product of violence done to them by politics that make them uncomfortable.
@gwensnyder.bsky.social seems very similar to the "words are violence" argument often heard from the left. Can you cite an example?
