I think the word you were looking for was 'pedantrocity.'
I think the word you were looking for was 'pedantrocity.'
Oh sweetie, warmth is already a noun. You don't need to nessify it.
I think we're in danger of getting to a point where everybody has their own personal definitions for everything, and that's really not how language works.
To your first point: You can not unintendedly advocate for something. It is a willful act. I have said nowhere that I think his commentary doesn't deserve criticism or scorn, just that it does not constitute advocacy. If someone's going to do something, whether it's calling out the dangers of toxic masculinity or…
Well, that would make the person placing the hypothetical heroin the advocate, not the person saying he would take it. This analogy is about the perspective of the heroin user.
Who said I didn't think he should be criticized? I'm not defending a person, I'm criticizing a message. If for scorekeeping purposes you need me on the record for this, I believe that he said some very troubling things. Based on the available evidence, I don't think I like this guy and I would probably not…
Analogies are not meant to be direct comparisons; the point I was illustrating is that it is possibly to concede one might be inclined to confess that they would engage in behavior that they would not otherwise advocate.
At least I'm doing it; I'm not resorting to smug dismissal as a counterargument.
I'm saying that indulging a personal hypothetical is not advocating for anything. People engage in all sorts of flawed behaviors, and admitting to that is not encouraging others to do it.
So I'm seeing, but nobody's really been able to explain why.
"advocated for the murder of black trans women"
You mean that thing he said that he had already thought about sounded like something he had already thought about?
A movie about dictionaries in this day and age? It's doomed to failure; people hate it when words have meaning.
It is really long. Thanks for noticing.
Nobody cares except sociopaths and content generators.
Maybe he just refuses to cede the narrative to a handful of trolls who probably account for about 1% of the population.
In honor of all the women who have walked on the moon.
These kids are so poor, they can't even afford an imagination!
You could call it Salt II: The Return of Salt
Everybody is a victim of anything if you extrapolate it out far enough.