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Everyone is responsible for their own heuristics to judge other people. Other people are not responsible for behaving in accordance to your heuristics, it is yo

Everyone is responsible for their own heuristics to judge other people. Other people are not responsible for behaving in accordance to your heuristics, it is your error if you misjudge them. Therefore, if someone uses a phrase also used by racists/communists/some other baddies, and does not fall into that category, it is your error to guess that someone does. It is just victim-blaming for error of judgement.

dsr_ 6y ago
Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context. In the context of a programming discussion, "Just hash the string and see if you get a match" is a reasonable and meaningful thing to say. In the context of cooking breakfast, it's meaningless drivel. Reasonable people try to use words that their current audience will understand in the current context. If they make a mistake, they learn from it. Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed.
- Proziam 6y ago
  > Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context. This is exactly correct. Not everyone's experiences are the same, leading different people to wrap a situation or a statement in different context. When some people hear BLM they wrap it in the context of the ideology of the founders, or in the riots they see on television, or in the intense anti-[insert group] hate on social media. Those people aren't racists, and they would happily work with you to combat corruption in our politics and policing. They want the world to be better, they simply disagree with how the movement is organized. > Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed. People who said 'All lives matter' early on were labeled racists and attacked mercilessly on social media and television. I don't believe these people are all unreasonable.

dsr_ 6y ago

Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context. In the context of a programming discussion, "Just hash the string and see if you get a match" is a reasonable and meaningful thing to say. In the context of cooking breakfast, it's meaningless drivel. Reasonable people try to use words that their current audience will understand in the current context. If they make a mistake, they learn from it. Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed.

Proziam 6y ago
> Words are tools of communication. They have meanings. Those meanings shift over time, and according to context. This is exactly correct. Not everyone's experiences are the same, leading different people to wrap a situation or a statement in different context. When some people hear BLM they wrap it in the context of the ideology of the founders, or in the riots they see on television, or in the intense anti-[insert group] hate on social media. Those people aren't racists, and they would happily work with you to combat corruption in our politics and policing. They want the world to be better, they simply disagree with how the movement is organized. > Unreasonable people insist that they are being victim-blamed. People who said 'All lives matter' early on were labeled racists and attacked mercilessly on social media and television. I don't believe these people are all unreasonable.