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ThirstenHowl · M
firstly, I don't know the context of this question, and nowadays it seems more than ever the actual background context of any question is crucial to know, because while we used to all know what various words meant, in recent years rightwingers have started trying to change the meanings of words to implicitly become their opposite meaning (e.g., Trump trying to co-opt a phrase like "fake news" to mean the opposite of what it meant before he did so)
rightwingers for example used to have the market cornered on intolerance, but now they want to make it seem as though anyone not going along with their intolerance are now the actual intolerant ones, and that shunning their intolerance is also shunning "diversity of thought"
so basically at this point, if you don't already know someone and know what they actually think about all of these things, or what they actually mean by any of these words, it's impossible to answer their questions regarding such things, because the added context of what's actually behind their questions is missing
it's like you could've just as easily had a situation in a 1942 concentration camp in Poland where the SS officers were claiming the Jews about to be gassed were intolerant of Nazism, and that being so was precluding diversity, that Nazis were being cancelled, the Jews were being entitled by not wanting to have anything to do with Nazis, and so forth
words are not tethered to meaning any more, what they mean depends entirely on who is using them and in what context they are using them, which can make discussing anything impossible sometimes when you just stumble upon a topic that is presented somewhat vaguely (without context)
rightwingers for example used to have the market cornered on intolerance, but now they want to make it seem as though anyone not going along with their intolerance are now the actual intolerant ones, and that shunning their intolerance is also shunning "diversity of thought"
so basically at this point, if you don't already know someone and know what they actually think about all of these things, or what they actually mean by any of these words, it's impossible to answer their questions regarding such things, because the added context of what's actually behind their questions is missing
it's like you could've just as easily had a situation in a 1942 concentration camp in Poland where the SS officers were claiming the Jews about to be gassed were intolerant of Nazism, and that being so was precluding diversity, that Nazis were being cancelled, the Jews were being entitled by not wanting to have anything to do with Nazis, and so forth
words are not tethered to meaning any more, what they mean depends entirely on who is using them and in what context they are using them, which can make discussing anything impossible sometimes when you just stumble upon a topic that is presented somewhat vaguely (without context)



