this is the closest I can go without touching mindkillers
The point I was making is that “mindkillers”, under its original definition, refers to political content in general. If someone writes about male-female relations and excludes politically touchy material, this does not mean that their article has no political content.
If there is political sensitivity involved in the subject of male-female relations, then the subject in general is a mindkiller. The mainstream line is no less “mindkilling” than the dissenting position—it just happens to enjoy hegemony.
The distinction is that mindkilling argument can be avoided if dissent from the mainstream line is taboo; but this does not imply that dissent is mindkilling and mainstream views are not—mindkilling is a property of ideologically controversial subjects in general.
You may wonder why I am arguing about definitions: there is a taboo against mindkilling arguments. If mindkilling is subtly redefined to mean dissent, people might grow to believe that it is dissent that is the mindkiller, not subjects of political relevance in general. That is Orwellian (although I don’t mean to suggest that your intentions are bad).
The point I was making is that “mindkillers”, under its original definition, refers to political content in general. If someone writes about male-female relations and excludes politically touchy material, this does not mean that their article has no political content.
If there is political sensitivity involved in the subject of male-female relations, then the subject in general is a mindkiller. The mainstream line is no less “mindkilling” than the dissenting position—it just happens to enjoy hegemony.
The distinction is that mindkilling argument can be avoided if dissent from the mainstream line is taboo; but this does not imply that dissent is mindkilling and mainstream views are not—mindkilling is a property of ideologically controversial subjects in general.
You may wonder why I am arguing about definitions: there is a taboo against mindkilling arguments. If mindkilling is subtly redefined to mean dissent, people might grow to believe that it is dissent that is the mindkiller, not subjects of political relevance in general. That is Orwellian (although I don’t mean to suggest that your intentions are bad).
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