I'm reading through Talia's book and a lot of it is "oh I knew that" because, like... I was there, Gandalf. 3,000 years ago when these fucking orcs invented gamer gate and the current cycle of extremely online misery and bullshit started. But seeing her lay out all the bullshit the online right spews out I sometimes wonder if we haven't been infected by them, sort of a "the abyss stares back" thing. Y'all ever wonder about shit like that when we make chad memes or joke about being volcel?
Nah, I think this idea that stealing rw terms (like calling rwingers cucks) is bad is so stunting and stupid. I really don't think it changes the core of our beliefs (and if it does, then call it out, obvs, but I don't think it necessarily does). Like remember how "fake news" was a term invented by liberals to describe legit problems? And then the right immediately started using it for news they didn't like? Rhetoric and language is a battle, and reclamation is a fun part of it. When the left starts using right wing terms it probably feels to them similar to how it feels when your parents use contemporary youth slang (if you are a "youth" that is, I'm assuming here).