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Piracy on the Page

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The Problem With Labels

If reclaiming individual words isn't part of the problem, how do you define which words are problematic and which ones aren't? And doesn't that reflect one's own personal prejudices when you're making that list? That's the problem, isn't it? I think that's the case with labels. I'm not in the business of trying to isolate other people, identify them, criticise them. This is about thinking about the language as a whole. People accept it, but they can see it. But nobody's really getting to grips with it. Nobody's really having, as I said in the talk, there's no tool. It's just us defining our own terms for the

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