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Linda Bower's avatar

Thank you for breaking that down so perfectly. Letting these language riddles go unchecked for years and years is how we got here. Too few are willing to stand up and criticize it directly.

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Her Safe Harbor's avatar

Absolutely. The quiet acceptance of manipulated language is how oppression takes root—*subtly, bureaucratically, “respectably.”* When we don’t challenge the framing, we end up debating cruelty on its terms.

“Compliance.”

“States’ rights.”

“Parental consent.”

“Protecting life.”

These aren’t neutral phrases. They’re loaded weapons disguised as policy.

You’re right—too few have been willing to say the quiet part out loud. But that’s changing. Because calling it what it is isn’t radical—it’s necessary.

Thank you for seeing it, saying it, and refusing to let it slide.

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