Seeing a lot of that right now; i.e., incendiary, unidimensional, nonsensical hot takes. I think it’s best to ignore them, because there’s IRL work to be done and all this type of person does is blather for attention online.

Yeah I’m with you. Just want the downtrodden to prevail the way a footballer wants his team to win. Sorry for yelling in the locker room.

For sure they seize on these terms constantly, but these pundits are opportunistic brawlers. They tend to pick words and phrases they know are easily misconstrued then just amplify the confusion.

Consider the reason why a bunch of Americans literally never understood the slogan “black lives matter.” Its punchiness as a chant at rallies was the juxtaposition of an extreme understatement with police brutality everyone was intimately aware of. The blunder was trying to use it to spread awareness of the violence (because without awareness of the violence its meaning is lost) so all the pundits had to do to discredit the movement was just… pan away from the violence.

Honestly was that buzzword ever anything but confusing? In my lifetime I’ve only ever heard it used by older conservatives all working from the same joke book. Never heard it used sincerely, only this tired straw-man.

Like did “tolerance” once connote open-mindedness, graciousness, charitable judgment, acceptance/inclusion, or anything other than weary endurance of something unpleasant? Legit curious about this one.

P.S. — I’m similarly curious about the term “consent” (sexual). Why are we still pretending its primary non-figurative meaning isn’t legal/contractual? Does “enthusiastic” really fix the confusing choice of word? Bah!

and I can only use every other road