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.
There’s just a kajillion of them:
Their Stasi Vs our neighborhood watch
Their whataboutism Vs our providing important context
Their unaccountable regime security forces Vs our police officer who feared for his safety
Their re-education Vs our cult deprogramming
Their GULAG Vs our federal bureau of prisons
Their prison camps Vs our prisons
our riots vs their protests for freedom
The various ways they avoid using “oligarch” for westerns. Western Billionaire, entrepreneur, etc, whereas it’s always “Russian Oligarchs.”
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
Our prison, their prison camp
“internment camp” might be good to plug here
Their authoritarianism vs our law and order.
Their warcrime vs our collateral damage.
Their dictator vs our leader.
Their reeducation vs our rehabilitation.
Their state media vs our public media.
The dictator vs our leader is huge. The way all westoid brained people talk about Putin, or Xi, or Kim like they have a personal relationship with them. They act like geopolitics is just based on these individuals personal whims
Their state media vs our public media.
you mean the free independent press (all 5 companies)
Defector/refugee - Illegal immigrant
Community service - Forced labor
Liberation - Occupation
Enhanced interrogation techniques - TortureCommunity service is not forced labour 💀
You mean prison labour is forced labour. Community service is when they make dumbass teens arrested for something like vandalism or underage drinking, go and work at a soup kitchen, or pick up garbage off the side of the road as punishment.
Paid volunteers vs mercenaries
White nationalism vs white supremacist
our ‘hard-hitting journalism’, their ‘state-funded propaganda’
The Dictator’s hand-picked successor.
The President’s endorsement.
I’ll start the thread.
Billionaire vs Oligarch
Custom vs Ritual
Freedom fighter vs Terrorist
Anime vs CartoonAnime vs Cartoon
It appears you have chosen violence.
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.
There’s a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it’s correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.
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Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it’s correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.
Actually, Excalibur is double-sided, so it is a 剣/tsurugi.Yes, but a tsurugi is a type of katana so it’s both
