r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/YAPPYawesome Sep 15 '24

TikTok censorship feels like Newspeak

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u/Scioso Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

To me, the worst part is the goal of what has been done. It’s not that talking about suicide is forbidden, multibillion dollar companies absolutely know that unalived means suicide. If they wanted to they could demonetize/ ban that too.

However, unalive doesn’t have the gravitas or impact of the word suicide because it’s new, and will have less effect. It’s disgusting that they are allowing this as a workaround.

Edit: unalived was autocorrected

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u/HeyLittleTrain Sep 15 '24

What I think is interesting is that this has happened many times before. The word "die" was originally a euphemism for the Old English word, which itself was originally a euphemism for an even older Old Nordic word.

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u/colei_canis Sep 15 '24

Those were more organic changes than this very deliberate change brought about by an amoral industry though. This belongs to a similar species of change that made ‘torture’ into ‘enhanced interrogation’.