Deathclaw_Puncher wrote:Still upset that "silly" no longer means "blessed", eh?
Nah, I've made my peace with that and I wish the word 'silly' all the best in it's future endevours. But see that is a case of a word naturally changing over time. Whereas what you were doing was more akin, to my mind, of something like this:
-Were you hanging around with Kevin last night?
-Yeah, why, what's wrong with Kevin?
-He's a total paedophile!
-Wow, what are you saying, that he wants to fuck kids? That's some accusation to make.
-No, I just mean he's a jerk.
-That's not what the word means though.
-Yeah, well that's what me and my friends mean when we say it. We just use it to mean jerk.
-But you know that most people don't though. And you know when they hear you say it they're going to assume you're using it for what it actually means. Which is exactly what I think you're trying to do.
-Yeah ... but words do change over time naturally though.
- Yeah but that's not what you're doing. This isn't a case of a word's meaning changing organically in a culture, it's just making a false accusation, and pretending that's not what you're doing.
-You're being a real necrophiliac about this bro ... you see when me and my friends say 'necrophiliac', we actually mean ...
-Yeah, I get what you're doing. And I'm calling BS on it speciffically.
I mean you specifically said "The incels are running for office now" in regards to him. If you're now telling me 'The incels' was just a reference to 'sexist pricks' in general, like fundamentalist Muslims, misandrist third wave feminists, backwoods hillbillys who think their wives should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen etc. are all in the same group, and saying 'The incels' wasn't a reference to incels specifically, of which you have written extensively on in this forum, in fact most of what I know of them, I learned from you, in order to make out he was one of them, if that's what you're saying now, as though 'incels' isn't a reference to people who are involuntarily celibate due and at times psychotically bitter about it ... well then I aint buying what you're selling mo chara.
Particularly as you said these incels are running for office NOW. Like this is hardly the first time a sexist prick has run for office, so again, I think you’re referring to the very specific group that you actually said.
You see this whole thing of calling people by inflammatory terms that don't fit, in order presumably, to tie the person being insulted to the specific negative connotation of what the inflammatory term actually means is something I feel obliged to speak out against, and all who engage in it.
It's eh ... how would one put it, a concern of mine.
Not just yet, I'm still tender from before.