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This isn't an attack on your idea like the other person, but an attack on the way you're arguing the point.
It does not requite a majority at all.
You're playing a semantics game, whether you know it or not. Only in these types of conversations do we suddenly feel this way. Most black people who descended from slavery have some amount of white genetics, but we don't call them white based on a technicality due to some small minority of genes they possess. If a student excells in every class except math, we don't call them stupid because of a minority of subject matter they struggle with. Why are we suddenly drawing the line here and acting like there is no concept of vocabulary following a mojority rule? It happens all the time. For example, look at the word veganism. It had a very clear and intentional meaning, which has been bastardized due to the majority of people using it another way. Vernacular follows the general concensus, whether you agree or not.
Actually, that is how it works. It doesn't just happen instantly, bur rather over time.
Do you not see how you just said, "actually, that's how it works", then proceeded to explain that it actaully doesn't work like that at all, but rather, "over time"? sometimes I think y'all just argue to be right. The person you were arguing with had a point there, but their point is irrelevant for various other reasons. If I do something no other men do, I can't say men do that. In fact, on a technical level, it's even more false, because it is a singular occurence, and I'm just one ***man***, not multiple men.
Comment by arbuthnot-lane at 14/01/2025 at 19:30 UTC
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Could you expand on the "veganism"-point?