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Nuanced opinions are very rarely expressed with snappy slogans.
by throwawaysleep 4y ago
Nuanced opinions are very rarely expressed with snappy slogans.
- teddyh 4y agoEvery proponent of an opinion with a snappy slogan will gladly explain how their opinion is very nuanced. Take, for instance, “defund the police”. It can be explained as a reasonable nuanced opinion, and not the literal interpretation. The same can be applied to most every slogan.
- freejazz 4y agoYou really like using words such as "every" where they have no reason to be used. Why are you making these kind of in-equivocal statements when they are clearly baseless and are just an expression of your political feeling. Good, express your political feelings. Telling people how everyone in a group of people does xyz is the exact problem you are complaining about.
- teddyh 4y ago> Telling people how everyone in a group of people does xyz is the exact problem you are complaining about. No, in this case it is actually the opposite. The problem I am complaining about is people ascribing negative aspects (extreme opinions) to people uttering snappy slogans. What I did was ascribe a positive aspects to these same people, namely that they can all describe their opinion as being nuanced. (Obviously the words “every” and “all” do not literally mean “every” and “all” in the mathematical sense, but that’s just how language works.)
- freejazz 4y agoI'm sorry, but you don't think "every" means "every" but instead actually means "some"?
- teddyh 4y agoThat’s how language works, yes. Otherwise, every sentence with the word “everybody” in it would be false.
- freejazz 4y agoNo, that is not how language works and you are a poor communicator. This is the definition of the word "every": eve·ry | ˈev(ə)rē | determiner (preceding a singular noun) used to refer to all the individual members of a set without exception: the hotel assures every guest of personal attention | [with possessive determiner] : the children hung on his every word. >Otherwise, every sentence with the word “everybody” in it would be false. No. "Everybody over there" is not false if it refers to everybody over there for example. If you use everybody to refer to some people, then that is your poor word choice.
- davidivadavid 4y agoI have no dog in the fight above but you're getting downvoted for explaining that orwellian language is bad. Pretty surreal.
- xboxnolifes 4y agosee: generalization
- testudosmith 4y ago[flagged]
- freejazz 4y agoHow fucking rude