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She writes really well, but this one sentence required me to back up when I knew I was misreading it: "This time, I was called a racist—a strange accusation gi
by phkahler 5y ago
She writes really well, but this one sentence required me to back up when I knew I was misreading it:
"This time, I was called a racist—a strange accusation given that I have two black sons—a eugenicist, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist."
The section set between - hyphens - is too long, so the before and after got separated in my mind. The result was reading the later part as: "I have two black sons—a eugenicist, and a QAnon conspiracy theorist" which struck me as comically incorrect, so I had to back up to put it together correctly.
- ariendj 5y agoThe thought of that is hilarious, thanks for sharing this brainfart.
- browningstreet 5y agoEm dashes like this work like parentheses.
- dpark 5y agoThe problem is the injection of this at the beginning of a list. This loses the comma that should be there to separate the list items, but also it just flows weirdly. Parentheses would have been much clearer here.
- coding123 5y agoI also thought for a second that one of her black sons was a eugenicist and the other was a QAnon. Read it again and it made more sense.
- emerged 5y agoI thought having a QAnon son was an odd way to prove you’re not racist.
- dragonwriter 5y agoReproducing with someone of a given race is also a weird way to prove that, though.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The section set between - hyphens - is too long Pedantic, but: while you use hyphens here, the part quoted is actually set between dashes.