Shot:
they are a legitimate threat to freedom and to anti-authoritarian leftists,
Chaser:
we shouldn’t allow these people to exist in the internet free
https://old.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/197l9ik/tankie_is_not_offensive_anymore/
Shot:
they are a legitimate threat to freedom and to anti-authoritarian leftists,
Chaser:
we shouldn’t allow these people to exist in the internet free
https://old.reddit.com/r/tankiejerk/comments/197l9ik/tankie_is_not_offensive_anymore/
I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that, besides “buzzword”, a term that people use that seems to specifically line up with what you’ve talked about is “scare word”, a term that is annoying to research for obvious reasons, but we can find an attestation of its use to describe political rhetoric here and there.
A few more:
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716728643/socialism-isn-t-the-scare-word-it-once-was
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/truman-socialism-scare-word/
Hope this helps. I also saw “scare term” and “devil word” referenced in a pop-linguistics article.
I am almost certain that there is some extremely niche writing about this but that it uses terminology we’re not aware of so finding it is fucking impossible.
These are good leads though. Gonna spend a couple weeks churning this over and digging around. Something is gonna pop out.