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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You seem to think you are doing God's work in policing a distinction between racial and not-purely-racial forms of bigotry. Why is that? Pedantry in the defense of _________ is no vice? What is _________?
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You seem to be quite a stickler for adherence to black letter definition when it comes to “censorship” (or any other word, really, when it suits your position), and yet this misapplication of a word gets a pass? You’ll pardon my snickering.
And yes — it’s quite important here to observe the strict definition. Stealing that word and overusing it: (a) insults the concept of actual racism and those who suffer it; (b) cheapens its value as a criticism/charge; and, (c) desensitizes people to its use.
(And you know he was using it to hyperbolize, which is bad faith.)
