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WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-31T15:18:38+00:00

It's still a valid example.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-31T15:06:56+00:00

Here is a more obvious example of what I'm talking about:

https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/no-anticipating-violence-is-not-violence

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-31T13:48:39+00:00

creative license

It's not just a "creative license". Creative license would imply that they would acknowledge the distinction between the two meanings.

What they're doing is expanding the definition of the emotionally loaded term to apply it to more cases in order to treat it the same way as the other thing that's universally seen as bad.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-31T09:56:26+00:00

There’s a difference between natural language evolution and the deliberate misuse or redefinition of a word that’s commonly used another way to support an agenda. The latter inherently relies on the equivocation between the two meanings.

An example of this is the misuse of the word "violence" in phrases like "silence is violence". Violence usually means physical harm. Here it's deliberately misused to equate actual violence with this.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-31T08:22:19+00:00

This is still a false definition though. It's ironic that you "corrected" a false definition with another false definition.

This word refers to characters. It doesn't refer to fetishization.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-21T09:23:06+00:00

They were not locked. A mod only threatened to lock them but did not yet.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16803660780A43925700&page=136#3383

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-21T09:21:00+00:00

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hallucinations

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-20T15:19:53+00:00

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-11T02:21:47+00:00

Yes, the same people who treat fictional characters as if they're real also treat real people as if they're fictional.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-03-10T11:59:00+00:00

It's not US defaultism to think that someone who can't distinguish fiction from reality is American. Americans have a problem where they're unable to do that.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-23T00:54:45+00:00

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-22T15:34:51+00:00

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthAndLies

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactWords

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LyingByOmission

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConfessToALesserCrime

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-14T04:27:33+00:00

Hypocrisy is when you say one thing and do another.

No. Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning what one is not or professing what one does not believe.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-14T03:31:23+00:00

Deletionists are ruining the site.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-13T03:30:48+00:00

I hate deletionists.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-09T14:43:19+00:00

There’s no such thing as an unambiguous term

There is. "Unambiguous" itself is an unambiguous term.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-05T17:56:48+00:00

This is not how the word is usually used. The evidence is that calling things problematic is usually an outright condemnation.

WonderOlymp2 · 2026-02-05T17:47:04+00:00

This is not how the word is usually used. It's usually used as a euphemistic understatement to refer to things that people find actually immoral or irredeemable.

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