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What makes you think Radical means violence? Radical was used 100% correctly according to its definition. Radical (adjective) [1]: believing or expressing the
by IncRnd 4y ago
What makes you think Radical means violence? Radical was used 100% correctly according to its definition.
Radical (adjective) [1]: believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social or political change
[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/radical https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/radic...
- LastTrain 4y agoSpeculating about the cause and effects of climate change is radical?
- Supermancho 4y agoRadical in common speech (within the US) is used to describe an outlier in behavior - zealot, would be the closest synonym for the way radical is used. Violence over climate change would be radical. It's an example of very uncommon behavior, not a specific quality of a radical. This slight disagreement is an issue of disparate definition. I believe the GP was simply being less than gracious in the interpretation of a comment, despite it making perfect sense how they came to their own understanding.
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- LastTrain 4y agoThanks. Mostly I was just reacting to the term radical being applied to an article that expressed some mostly conventional views on climate change. What was the radical part?