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What are you gonna use bourgeois english?
I'm saying this unironically. There are so many ways in which capitalism and colonialism oppress, and concepts which are subject to chilling effects when we try to communicate them, that we really do have to make up our own words for them as we come to understand them. Most of them are pretty self-explanatory when you're confronted with them for the first time if you've been thinking about these things for a while. Now that you've condensed these concepts into snappy words or phrases you can do a higher level of analysis on them, and communicate your ideas more easily. The humor attached to them even helps you remember them more easily.
No, it's just that Hexbear has quite the lingo, compared to other progressive communities...
I'm saying it develops out of necessity