"Right to work" frames opponents as being anti-worker and yet we know the reverse is true. Giving this "right" to workers is a subversive means of reducing worker rights not defending them.
Likewise, terminology is being used subversively to attack abolitionists, sanitize prostitution, and confuse debate. I'd like to discuss examples of doublespeak or semantics that are being used to obscure the reality of prostitution and tarnish its opponents.
I'll put my first example in my second post of the thread.
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Why YXXX suffix?
Months ago I tried to have a thread on
http://rabble.ca/babble/feminism/defense-nordic-model-dealing-prostitution-and-right-to-defend-it-0
While it was eventually grudgingly acknowledged that we could defend the Nordic Model, which is an abolitionist path, I realized the topic was just too broad and misunderstood for one thread. The arguments were circular. At one point a poster managed to establish that legalization did not lead to increased security for prostitutes but it was overlooked.
In the Canadian Politics section the number of repetitious threads has been reduced by pooling discussions under logical topic headings rather than having threads started for each article or event that comes up. That gave me the idea of isolating arguments concerning prostitution.
The topic resonates with me on a personal level but I don't plan on posting often so I want to make sure I can find the threads again whenever I pop in. Adding YXXX will help me do that and help anyone else who wants to find my pro-abolitionist threads. If anyone else wants to use the suffix to identify pro-abolitionist threads I'm happy to share.