Yeah, "will prompt a rival subculture to offer either an eliminativist counterdefinition (“actually, x *doesn’t* exist”) or one that sees the original subculture as mostly to blame (“it exists but you’re actually the *guilty* party”)."
Just like happened with the phrase "Deep State".
All this is reminiscent of the quote widely attributed to Gandhi: “First they *ignore* you, then they laugh at you, then they *fight* you, then you win.”
Yeah, "will prompt a rival subculture to offer either an eliminativist counterdefinition (“actually, x *doesn’t* exist”) or one that sees the original subculture as mostly to blame (“it exists but you’re actually the *guilty* party”)."
Just like happened with the phrase "Deep State".
All this is reminiscent of the quote widely attributed to Gandhi: “First they *ignore* you, then they laugh at you, then they *fight* you, then you win.”