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The maintainer might mean that, but words have meaning. That particular phrase is overly charged and carries a specific connotation surrounding the idea that po
by Klonoar 2y ago
The maintainer might mean that, but words have meaning. That particular phrase is overly charged and carries a specific connotation surrounding the idea that police are the sole line keeping society in shape.
It’s a poor choice of words for such (relatively) public communication.
- OJFord 2y agoThese words have the meaning you're implying to at least some people in the USA, it was new to me. I don't know his full biography, seems to be Chinese born and went to MIT, but he signs off 'Cheers', I think it's a reasonable possibility that he doesn't mean whatever politically charged US meaning it has by it.
- Klonoar 2y ago> to at least some people in the USA It is not "at least some" and this isn't something to downplay.
- OJFord 2y agoThe classic example is 'to smoke a fag'. You're, with your US perspective, saying 'hey words have meaning you know, don't downplay murdering homosexuals' while millions^ of people smoke fags in the UK every day. (^probably? Maybe not any more, a lot of fag-smoking relative to murder at any rate.)