Term appropriation so degrades political language that accurate words become unusable.

Evidence

The effect of this constantly expanding sphere of pipikism is that it’s not just more difficult to talk about real examples of disaster profiteering or the need for a Green New Deal. Gradually, it has come to feel as if every idea of any import, every word that might express the magnitude of our moment, has been boobytrapped before it can even be uttered. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 487

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pipikism/pipiking introduced as the central coined term of the chapter — the right’s tactic of exhausting and devaluing language.
• XREF: Connects to the parsing of ‘diagonalism’ and language appropriation running through the whole book; also resonates with Orwell’s prose ideas about damaged political language.