pettifogging it matters not what you call the fascists, they’re still practicing fascism. This pedantry your arguing is just that, pedantry, and it’s distracting.
pettifogging it matters not what you call the fascists, they’re still practicing fascism. This pedantry your arguing is just that, pedantry, and it’s distracting.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like i said. Some Zionists are fascists, but can’t be nazis. By definition. When you start to throw words around that doesn’t mean what you think they mean, they will eventually stop having any meaning at all.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Pedantry separating out one right wing authoritarian from another isn’t helpful in this context. Maybe in others, but not in this one
Also, language has always evolved, the words didn’t lose meaning they changed meaning. ‘Literally’ became an antonym, it’s fine.
So you’re doubly wrong. Wrong for being a pedant, and wrong for your stated reason for pedantry.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Perhaps if you studied the history and origins of nazism you’d think differently. When you call people nazis, that really aren’t nazis, then you just rob it of meaning.
The fact that sarcastic irony has twisted the meaning of a word faster during this age than should have been possible, only enforced my belief that the meaning of words are important. Otherwise you end up in a conversation with someone and you end up spending all of the time explaining ‘your’ definition of what a word means.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Once again, the entire history of our language is mocking you. Please see my earlier comment.
You are doubly wrong, distinctions between right-wing authoritarians isn’t important in this context.
Words do not lose meaning, they change and are understood through context. I gave you an example already:
When I use the word ‘literally’ in a sentence I do not have to explain my definiton (literally/figurativly) being used.
See above, if you had read my earlier comment you wouldn’t have wasted your, our my time with this