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That definition is close to what I mean! But I think you'll find that in online vernacular, to "call $person out for $thing" has the association of publicly sha
by dang 4mo ago
That definition is close to what I mean! But I think you'll find that in online vernacular, to "call $person out for $thing" has the association of publicly shaming $person for some $thing that the caller-outer believes they did, considers bad, and wishes to punish them for and/or pressure them into not doing again.
- IshKebab 4mo agoOh yeah good point - that is definitely part of the woke movement. I didn't mean it in that sense anyway.
- dredmorbius 4mo agoSeems to me that there's a distinction between calling out a practice or trope and calling out a person. I do the former with ... some regularity (e.g., mis-statements of Weber's definition of government). Where trite/tired comments are frequent, push-back or corrections are also going to be somewhat repetitive. In this thread, dropping "What a load of hogwash" from IshKebab's original reply would have left a perfectly cromulent point. That phrase itself does go against HN's civility guidelines. The comment it replies to is ... tired.
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