Suggesting someone has claimed something damaging they definitely haven't claimed

[Scott75]

Twice, I've been asked questions by the same poster that I think amount to clear harassment involving the word ped******. Here are the posts in question:

https://repolitics.com/forums/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=54465&content_commentid=1760978

https://repolitics.com/forums/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=54465&content_commentid=1761015

I reported both of these posts as harassment, the first one a while ago and I've just reported the second one, but so far I haven't gotten a response and I just wanted to make sure that this kind of thing isn't permitted.

Edited October 31, 2024 by phoenyx75
linked posts in order

[User]

Words can mean whatever we want them to mean!

Its amazing how you can't get the point.

 

[Scott75]

19 hours ago, User said:

Words can mean whatever we want them to mean!

Its amazing how you can't get the point.

You never understood what I was trying to convey to you. You took the first part of what I said and didn't even properly understand that part. Here's a quote of mine that you used:

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Words can have any meaning we wish.

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Source:

https://repolitics.com/forums/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=54465&content_commentid=1761012

The part you overlooked was the "we" part. It's something that needs more than a single person. Here's what I said -after- that line that cements the fact that this is a thing of agreement, which implies a community, and finally becoming part of a tradition:

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I think a line from the well known science fiction author Frank Herbert is apt here:

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"Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build."

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Source:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44439415-god-emperor-of-dune

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Edited November 1, 2024 by phoenyx75

[Greg]

@User - How about you stop calling someone a pedophile over a badly worded statement.

@phoenyx75 - How about you ignore someone who calls you a name.

 

 

[User]

1 minute ago, Greg said:

@User - How about you stop calling someone a pedophile over a badly worded statement.

@phoenyx75 - How about you ignore someone who calls you a name.

 

 

It was not a badly worded statement. This person repeatedly asserts that words can have any meaning, engaging in circular reasoning that if someone believes that another meaning is valid, then that different meaning is valid. I quote:

"As I've said before, words can meaning anything a group of people wish them to mean."

It is a loaded rhetorical question I am asking to make that point. That, if I wish his words to mean he admitted to being a pedophile... 

I did not call this person a pedophile. Playing their dumb game, they admitted to it and I am asking why. 

A more intelligent person would have gotten that point, not come running to the moderator to enforce a rule that has clearly not been enforced consistently (at all) the entire time I have been here. 



 

[Scott75]

4 hours ago, User said:

It was not a badly worded statement.

On that we agree at least.

4 hours ago, User said:

This person repeatedly asserts that words can have any meaning

You forgot the second part, which is that there has to be an -agreement- among a group of people as to what words mean. Without that agreement, you've got a tower of babel situation, with people no longer understanding each other because their languages are no longer the same. This is exactly what's happening with gender and other terms denoting gender at present. The -easiest- way to resolve this is by adding other words to make what ones means clear, such as cis, trans and biological.

 

5 hours ago, User said:

I quote:

"As I've said before, words can meaning anything a group of people wish them to mean."

Note the "group of people" bit. Without that, it can't work.

5 hours ago, Greg said:

@User - How about you stop calling someone a pedophile over a badly worded statement.

@phoenyx75 - How about you ignore someone who calls you a name.

I'm sure you're aware that what User said would be considered harassment in a lot of places. What I'm not sure of is if it's considered harassment here.

[User]

38 minutes ago, phoenyx75 said:

Note the "group of people" bit. Without that, it can't work.

I have a group of people. Now what?

[Scott75]

50 minutes ago, User said:

1 hour ago, phoenyx75 said:

Note the "group of people" bit. Without that, it can't work.

I have a group of people. Now what?

Perhaps I should have said a -significant- group of people. The kind that can get entries like cisgender into Wikipedia, or define gender in Wikipedia as a social construct.

Edited November 6, 2024 by phoenyx75

[Greg]

I have a hard time taking any complain seriously, if you're just going to continue to argue about semantics.

Thread is closed.