Reification! The shorthand becomes the mental images and concepts that come to mind.

This isn’t just a problem for civil rights education. It’s a problem for all of history. Over time, political and cultural movements are flattened until they become stories that lack nuance, inner conflict, and humanity. Three-dimensional people become avatars for ideologies. And lesser-known figures vanish from the narrative entirely.
The “nine-word problem” of civil rights discourse
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Reification! The shorthand becomes the mental images and concepts that come to mind.
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“The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds” — Cloud Atlas
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