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The logical endpoint of postmodernism where every statement is questioned for intent and therefore no one can make simple observations. “Someone can perceive i
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
The logical endpoint of postmodernism where every statement is questioned for intent and therefore no one can make simple observations.
“Someone can perceive it X way” without ever having the burden of offering evidence that that someone even exists.
We can only speak in codes now, things will be identified by hashes or some crap.
- v37p 6y agoSearching Twitter for examples of people decrying "Chinese virus" can come across as confirmation bias. It's also not an accurate measure of how many people truly disapprove of the name. The point is that the argument for or against it is frivolous. As for speaking in codes, you could just call the virus by its actual name, SARS-CoV-2 and the variant G614[0]. [0]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2032888 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2032888
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI was just observing the immediate objections to all the other geographic names but then that apparently doesn’t matter when naming “variants.”