.@bathwin Dictionaries are useful to show what commonly understood meanings are. Cannot be used to prove what other ppl really mean.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
To a point but this can be a lazy/unwise debating strategy. Legal definitions better as grounded in consideration of moral case.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Often doesn't leave much time for debate, or becomes the debate.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
If it's legally defined you can, harder just using the dictionary. Not easy to get past the different definitions if racism.
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Replying to @bathwin
Not everyone you want to have discussions with will know legal definitions. I prefer to just let them define what they mean.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
They will if you tell them. So they define it, as the power+ version, then what.....
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Where do you go from there? They redefine things to subvert honest debate in the first place.
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Wherever you were going. Whatever point you were making abt individual or systemic racism.
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