Comment on Rantz: Seattle students told it's 'white supremacy' to love reading, writing

• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s obviously trying to conflate the two. Honoring written contracts is not the same as worshiping the written word. If you asked any random person what worshiping the written word was, they’d probably say “loving reading” or “loving writing” or something to that effect. It’s super obvious propaganda.

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  • PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s obviously trying to conflate the two.

    No, it’s not. It’s defining the phrase.

    It is saying:

    • Worship of the written word (The phrase)

    Is defined by:

    • honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies. An erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.

    It say nothing about the love of reading or writing, or contracts. And what’s worse is that they are very clearly saying that “worship of the written word” is a characteristic/trait of white supremacy, not white supremacy. So you’re missing (it seems willfully at this point) the meaning of what they are saying.

    If you asked any random person what worshiping the written word was

    If you did that, you’d get a million different answers. And that’s why they defined it:

    • honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies. An erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.

    they’d probably say “loving reading” or “loving writing” or something to that effect.

    You’re just pulling this out of you ass.

    It’s super obvious propaganda.

    All you’re doing is making up a meaning that very clearly isn’t there, and then getting upset over your own made up meaning.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do yall call it? Dogwhistling?

      Worship of the written word sounds like you love reading and writing. Lefties have a consistent problem with calling shit one thing, and trying to define it another. Everyone understands worship to mean ‘love’. Like honestly, do yall really expect us to believe your nonsense? That you guys fucked up the messaging again?

      And even if youre right, honoring contracts and nothing else is a trope of the devil. Trying to make that connection in kids brains is racist as hell.

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      • PizzaMane@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Worship of the written word sounds like you love reading and writing.

        To YOU. But not to everyone, which is why they defined the term they are using.

        Everyone understands worship to mean ‘love’.

        Get out of here with that bullshit.

        dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/worship

        This dictionary only includes love as 3 of 8 definitions.

        www.britannica.com/topic/worship

        This one doesn’t include the word love at all.

        www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/…/worship

        This one only includes it in 1 of 4 definitions.

        So get out of here with this definition absolutism bullshit. Words can mean a million different things. And they explicitly explained what they are talking about, and you’re the one fucking up the messaging.

        And even if youre right, honoring contracts and nothing else is a trope of the devil.

        The word contract isn’t even in there.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d think they were talking about the Bible, honestly.

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