Posted on 04/24/2022 8:46:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Atlantic magazine has come up with a creative but laughable way to defend the extreme doxxing by Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz, who once was a staff writer at their periodical. Their tactic is to broaden the definition of "doxxing" to make it fluid enough to serve the purposes of liberals. Therefore, according to the Atlantic's semantics game, what the Libs of Tik Tok did by presenting unedited videos uploaded by liberals to the very public TikTok platform was somehow "doxxing;" but when Lorenz exposed the name and other personal information of the creator of Libs of TikTok that wasn't really doxxing at all.
If you are scratching your heads at the absurdity of that stance, at least Atlantic admits it in the title of their article by Kaitlyn Tiffany on Friday, "Doxxing Means Whatever You Want It To." The subtitle submerges even deeper into the realm of the surreal with "The word once defined a category of behaviors. Now it expresses an emotion."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
lying about the meaning of words = radical left tactic
If “fluid” is the defense for doxxing, then even the “new, cool, progressive, and repurposed English dictionary” is in trouble, and probably obsolete.
Democrats are evil scum.
Moral relativity.
The Babylon Bee needs to cover this...
It all depends on whether you’re a democrat or not
Mind meld......my first thought.
“Fluid” is right - the general proposition on the left is “It isn’t wrong when we do it.” That covers a multitude of sins, in fact, all of them.
Well, of course.
When liberals get doxxed that’s bad, when conservatives get doxxed that’s good.
The Atlantic is full of crabs, sewage and wrecks.
It’s also the name of an ocean.
Pick a definition. Stick with it. If not your arguments are worthless just like your thinking to save a two-faced “colleague” and fellow traveler trying to save her credibility with crocodile tears. Watering down the dedication to anything goes will not save you when the courts rule against you. Making up your own rules may sway you LCD readers. It will be interesting to see how much the authors would cry foul if they get the same treatment.
When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.
Just like when Merriam Websters changed the definition of “vaccine.” It used to be that a vaccine “provided immunity.” That changed in 2021. Now a vaccine “stimulates the body’s immune response.”
Kaitlyn Tiffany, Cornell University in Communication and Development Sociology in 2015.
So this is roughly the airhead opinion of your kid home from college lecturing everyone at the thanksgiving dinner.
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
[Newspeak's] vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.
It’s not “fluid” this is what communists do - have been doing as part of their destabilizing efforts to destroy the Republic.
Nothing is “true” unless they say it is.
It’s gaslighting plain and simple - these people are evil and must be stopped.
The traditional publications have been reduced to essentially commenting on social media. It is clear they have very little to offer by way of original thought and analysis.
lying about the meaning of words = radical left tactic
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It probably started before their redefinition of the word “gay” but that’s the one which still bothers me the most and the fact that many and probably most conservative minded people have adopted it in their every day language.
One of their newer ones that irks me, especially by being accepted by many F.R. members is “Black vs. black” and leaving “white” as is, the implication being that, blacks are superior, not just equality but superiority.
I own my language, leftist nut cases don’t.
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