Like, they decide for people what they mean using ‘historical use’, tacitly chaining people to the lowest common denominator of a dead generation. It’s usually people who are ‘free thinkers’, too, so they’ll say
“I don’t let dead white men tell me what to believe or the masses tell me how to live. Wait, is that a gollywog? Well, I don’t care how you’re using it. I’m deciding in my vast enlightentardation that drawing a black person with rubberhose lips is ontologically inseparable from delivering a Jim Crow sermon and believing every word of it because that’s how it was traditionally used, and therefore it is, and you are racist because a condescending retard on the Internet told you so. No, you are not allowed to disagree and since I’m already acting with the same self-righteous ‘informative’ patronization as a British governess and tutor from the Victorian era I will give you five slaps on the ass with this ruler if you disagree with my correct assessment that I am telling you even though you totally know it because it’s true.”
Is this just another case of “lefties think they get to copyright all the ways in which they are speshul” like they did with all the arbitrary music genre options (“You can’t be crudeoilonmydickcore unless you agree with all these positions that literally every corporation panders to, like a true rebel would”)? Is it now “Break free from the binds of tradition! Unless you’re not a gay hipster retard, and draw the things we’re scared of. Then every connotation, more and point of definition is binding on you. If you vote Republican then you must conform to the basicest bitch crowd imaginable and be subject to all their conventions”
Although tbh it almost feels like they’re reaching from that basic bitch ground zero. “I am a nonconformist except when it is necessary to be too retarded to grasp that a person’s will is independent of those of people who used the same symbols or fragments of rhetoric as they now use, then I strategically become livestock who lacks the comprehension even to understand what free thought is.”