• Manalith@midwest.social
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    2 months ago

    What they’re referring to is a fairly common phenomenon called semantic satiation, though in this case for visually seeing the word rather than audibly hearing the word.

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      2 months ago

      Semantic satiation occurs on the order of minutes. But they make it sound like it’s happened over months. I think they’re trying to change the subject to Palestine for no reason and deny the genocide there. I think their thesis is that those are false allegations, and they have eroded this person’s trust in the term.