This is a language anti-pattern that needs to be called out and dissuaded:

  • An important social or scientific concept with a precise meaning that would take a journal article to explain gets a vernacular short hand because social media has character limits.
  • The vernacular term gets reinterpreted by its opponents to be as broad and general as possible completely ignoring the fact that it is simply a linguistic tag for a very precise phenomena.
  • Someone with “expertise” in the field than makes a viral post about how absurd the broadened term is completely ignoring the original precise meaning.
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