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Disagree with that framing. "Grooming" as a meme is one of the few ways that our side has linguistic advantage over the gay commies and we shouldn't give it up.
Grooming has the implications of sexual purposes. We can play the semantic overload game where we can call them pedos without turning normies off by using the "pedo" word.
Their side is grooming. Our side is tradition, legacy, family togetherness, community, and any other positive connotations someone with a better vocabulary can think of.
It's linguistically accurate in the same way that concentrating illegal immigrants in camps can accurately be described as "concentration camps", but we're not arguing with people who care about things being technically correct.
Grooming someone to be an heir was a thing. The word does not necessarily mean anything sexual.
No, but it has that connotation in 1980s+ or so culture.
You don't say you're having a gay time or that you're feeling a little gay today, just cause it used to mean happy. And when you say something is wicked, it's generally understood to mean 'cool' (not that I condone that one).
Point is, words change, this one certainly has. And 'grooming' is now an effective political label, far more rhetorically effective than them calling us nazis.
It is an effective rhetorical weapon, one of our few, and i'd go so far as to say it is our most effective one in polite conversation. Only an autist goes around insisting on all the old uses and claiming that they engage in grooming of their heir.
This. People like those in this thread are making it easy for liberals to take the word back and define "Ok groomer" out of existence. Good job guys.