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While I do not subscribe to, support, or endorse this man's theology, respectively, Karl Marx was not alive during COVID. He coined the phrase in the 19th century using alienation in his theory against capitalism.

Today, we take conversations offline, to unpack a theory, marrying it with a hypothesis.

That would have been psychobabble 30 years ago.

Alienation has a true meaning no matter which verb, noun, or adjective you compound it with.

Now, if you want to tell me bootilisious is a ridiculous, nonsensical, word I will concur. But, it is a word in the dictionary today.

Normally, I would let you be right when you're wrong, but you are held to a higher standard as a reporter. Facts do matter. Words are coined and reused all the time. Idiotic words and phrases are regergitated until they have meaning. You may think alienation is an idiotic word with no meaning to you, but it has meaning to others, particularly the brothers and sisters of socialism and communism.

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PA is a psychological term. I don't care what Marx said. You are in effect arguing that it is whatever each person wants it to be. As long as a oarent feels alienated, it's PA. That's fine in layman's sense but not in psychology.

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Alienation by it's very definition is alienation. It doesn't matter which identifier you marry to it. Parents can have a sense of alienation if they are disallowed contact with a child they love, support, and protect. It's not alienation if they child is being keep away due to abuse.

I won't beat a dead horse, but if you are denying alienation exists then that's your belief.

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That's nice if you're using it as a layman's term. If a parent feels alienated, it's not my place to tell them how to feel, but a psychological term must have standards. PA has none.

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SoA is a real diagnosis with consequences rending different, sometimes dinitating symptoms, according to the National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8899829/

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*Debilitating

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Sense of alienation has nothing to do with parental alienation besides having alienation in the term. It's a COVID related term.

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