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In rationalist circles we call this "tabbooing" – someone will say a sentence that includes some word that’s ambiguous or overloaded or contentious or triggering or something, like "blah blah NIMBYs!," and the person listening will say "tabboo NIMBY?" which means "say exactly... Here’s a relevant LessWrong post for those who are interested.
overall my aesthetic aligns with this. Especially when it comes to politics! but for the sake of testing hypotheses, I’m trying to think of what information is lost when we drop the brand. An example that comes to mind is talking about religion....