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GLOSSARY

Alien: The word alien carries a negative connotation of strangeness and otherness. It should not be used to describe unauthorized immigrants.
Antigayist: Someone who oppresses or supports the oppression of homosexuals.
Antimuslimist: Someone who oppresses or supports the oppression of Muslims. Antimuslimists are almost always racists too.
Antitransgenderist: Someone who oppresses or supports the oppression of transgender people.
Child: Someone twelve years of age or less. Calling adolescents and teenagers children is condescending.
The disease-spreading party: The Republican party. Republicans blocked federal funding for Covid vaccines and treatment for a partisan win while buying stocks to profit from the deaths.
Disloyalty program: A rewards-based marketing strategy which offers discounts in exchange for sacrificing one's purchasing privacy. Disloyalty programs unfairly reduce the anonymity of every other shopper who isn't signed up.
The exploitation economy: A less neutral-sounding term for the gig economy.
Global heating: A less neutral-sounding term for climate change which better conveys the severity of the crisis.
Hypocrite: Someone with blatant disregard for the alignment of their words and actions, as opposed to someone who imperfectly adheres to their own principles. Being imperfect makes one human, not a hypocrite.
Inappropriate: A weasel word used to criticize actions when one lacks valid criticism.
The injustice system: A vengeful legal system which uses the incoherent concept of free will to justify keeping people in cruel and inhumane conditions. Punishment is emphasized over rehabilitation, but only the non-rich are punished.
The lesser of two evils party: The Democratic party. Corporate democrats suck, but at least they're not Republicans.
Pass (away): A euphemism which encourages people to never really come to terms with death.
Planet-roaster: Any entity that advocates policies which worsen global heating.
Police officer: A respectable, hardworking person who doesn't act like a thug.
Thug: A badge-and-gun-wielding predator who attacks nonviolent protesters, jails peaceful drug users, harasses the poor, and lies in court to defend other thugs.
The wannabe dictator: Donald Trump.
Worth: Reject the idea that a person's worth is measured by their financial assets. Measuring one's "worth" seems to be motivated by an unhealthy obsession with social status, so I avoid this phrase entirely.

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