Both of these are basically untrue. There's nothing "academic" about any of those terms, they're easily understood and the only people who whine about them are rich fascists who mostly have more "academic" backgrounds than the people who use them.
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Great point!
aug 31, 2025, 4:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Right? How is "food insecurity" hard to understand? You can't say "starving" because that's not what's going on.
aug 31, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
If you run away from using the correct terms for things because some imagined swing voter in PA would have voted Dem except someone said "heteronormativity" once *you are actively contributing to anti-intellectualism*
aug 31, 2025, 4:15 pm • 6 0 • view
like, they are academic terms in the sense that they were formed inside academia, but they're also useful words for concepts and thus are also used more generally.
aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 5 0 • view
Sure but so is a ton of other language people use daily. "Academic language" in this context is a specific accusation
aug 31, 2025, 4:28 pm • 4 0 • view
basically used as a polite equivalent of "woke," lbr.
aug 31, 2025, 4:29 pm • 5 0 • view