We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.
e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
Regime vs Government
Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.
- Bribery/corruption vs lobbying
- Oligarch vs job creator
- Warlord vs leader/general
- Preventable deaths are social murder
- Propaganda vs public relations
- Terrorist/guerilla and freedom fighter just depends on which side of the violence you’re on
- Any use of the term “extremist”
- And the worst is that they call their fascists “neoliberals”
Prime minister and Supreme leader are literally synonyms yet have such wildly different implications.
Propaganda vs Public Relation Campaigns
From what I understand, Chinese use the same word for both.
Used to be that way in English.
Edward Bernays, the original corporate propagandist/father of modern PR, used to work with companies when they were still called “propaganda departments” instead of “PR Departments”. His book is even called “Propaganda”
oligarchy - entrepreneurs
invasion - humanitarian intervention
indoctrination - common sense
surveillance - CCTV
attacking free press - defending national security
racial profiling/transphobia - stopping cultural marxism
freedom fighters - terrorists
united states - america
football - soccer
I’ll start the thread.
Billionaire vs Oligarch
Custom vs Ritual
Freedom fighter vs Terrorist
Anime vs Cartoon
cartoon sounds derogatory like “its just a cartoon” but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are
All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It’s literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.
Anime is a style of cartoon. The early 00’s teen titans and the current “My Adventures with Superman” are in the anime style, but clearly western.
