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Its endless, and mindless, repetition left them numb long ago. By now, the word is no longer shocking, just tedious.
Through frequent use, “a word like this begins to be less of a curse word,” said Ricardo Otheguy, a sociolinguist at the City University of New York Graduate Center. “The more you use it, the less dirty it is.”
MacCruiskeen wrote:Its endless, and mindless, repetition left them numb long ago. By now, the word is no longer shocking, just tedious.
Through frequent use, “a word like this begins to be less of a curse word,” said Ricardo Otheguy, a sociolinguist at the City University of New York Graduate Center. “The more you use it, the less dirty it is.”
The word being "anti-Semite", right? (As used by nomo, for instance.)
You're not paying attention. That word ["anti-Semite"] is always being used in one specific context, even though you might disagree with me at times.
MacCruiskeen wrote:You're not paying attention, nomo.
Oh, and for someone who hates to engage in a debate with 15-year olds, you do have quite an irritating tendency to emulate one in your own responses lately. What up with that?
Feh. I'm not calling someone an anti-Semite just because they hate gefillte fish.
MacCruiskeen wrote:You are in fact calling "someone" (i.e. Alice) an anti-Semite simply because she refuses to shut up about Israeli state crimes
nomo wrote:MacCruiskeen wrote:You are in fact calling "someone" (i.e. Alice) an anti-Semite simply because she refuses to shut up about Israeli state crimes
Okay, so you really are not paying attention.
I'm calling her an anti-Semite because she delights in calling Jews Nazis even though the comparison is hopelessly inaccurate and willfully offensive, because she suggests that every Jew who doesn't speak out is responsible for the horrors in Palestine, and because on more than one occasion has hinted that American politics is controlled by Jews.
And for all I know, she hates gefillte fish, too. But then again, so do I.
Searcher08 wrote:Please provide a link to where Alice calls Jews Nazis.
nomo wrote:Searcher08 wrote:Please provide a link to where Alice calls Jews Nazis.
What part of "Zio-Nazi" do you not understand?
Jeff wrote:I'm backing up sunny on this. I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask for specifics. And I think the moderators do a great job at a largely thankless task re hate speech.
I agree about thoughtless language. It can round the edges of things that ought to be in sharp definition and create unintended inferences. Not a good thing for this subject.
Searcher08 wrote:Please point a link to where Alice calls Jews Nazis.
nomo wrote:Searcher08 wrote:Please point a link to where Alice calls Jews Nazis.
With all due respect: bugger off.
She can barely post a single item without referring to Zio-Nazis. And just to remind you: "Zio-Nazi" is a slimeball's way of calling Jews Nazis while hiding behind a figleaf saying, "but I said Zionists, not Jews." At least the Stormfronters aren't such weasels about it.
It's freaking obvious what is meant by that term, and shame on you for pretending not to know it.
Eldritch wrote:If anyone needs to "bugger off," it would be the guy who can't even adequately shore up the single allegation he makes against others—even though he makes it over and over and over.
nomo wrote:I'm calling her an anti-Semite because she delights in calling Jews Nazis even though the comparison is hopelessly inaccurate and willfully offensive, because she suggests that every Jew who doesn't speak out is responsible for the horrors in Palestine, and because on more than one occasion has hinted that American politics is controlled by Jews.
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