Deliberate Conflation
Deliberately conflating two terms under one name.
Might be done for pro-social/positive-sum reasons Two truths doctrine or for anti-social/mixed- or negative-sum reasons
Prime-target for Rectification of names.
Deliberately using the same word while meaning different things to paint one’s opponent as clinically insane to one’s base. A tool for memetic warfare
E.g.: In this video both people paints the other one as crazy: as if one were claiming that transmen can’t get pregnant (objectively false) and the other that [cis] men can get pregnant (objectively false).
E.g.: Using “normal” to deliberately conflate a behavior that is judged to be “good” with a behavior that is judged to be “common” in an attempt to get people who sync to common belief to Syncing to Common Belief to it.
E.g. “Black lives matter” (the statement) and “Black Lives Matter” (the org). It seemed for a bit that not being pro the org was the same as disagreeing with the statement.