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> Please don't patronize me just because you were wrong about the definition of whistleblower. 1) You're coming off as pretty darn patronizing yourself, too, s
by CRConrad 2y ago
> Please don't patronize me just because you were wrong about the definition of whistleblower.
1) You're coming off as pretty darn patronizing yourself, too, so stones and glass houses.
2) Dunno about "the" definition of whistleblower; in your GP you said you got it off Google. They're (so far) not King of the English Language, AFAIK. No that I am, either, but the connotations I've picked up wherever I've heard or read the term usually include that "a whistleblower" is someone on the inside dishing the dirt on their own organisation. Which isn't what Assange did.
(So by the general consensus usage, the only WikiLeaks whistleblower would be that German guy who wrote the book that showed what a general asshole Assange is.)