Oh, sorry, is the correct term now “scare quotes”? Websearches were stubborn to pull up a definition for “fear quotes”. But since you know scare and fear are synonyms… this should be in reach.

I coulda swore “fear quotes” was the idiom. Maybe I’ve slipped along the 6th dimension again, and/or some vast retcon’s afoot. n_n

Anyways, I used scare quotes to denote my distaste for that term, mocking those who are into that kind of thing, highlighting the implausibility of it (being “pure”).