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    1. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 5 Oct 2018

      Conor Friedersdorf Retweeted The New Yorker

      Hold on, now. Set BK aside. When confronting a crying little boy in trouble, who sees his tears and thinks the most apt metaphor for them is “weapon”?https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1048181649295462400 …

      Conor Friedersdorf added,

      The New YorkerVerified account @NewYorker
      At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Brett Kavanaugh seemingly weaponized crying, the way a little boy does when he’s in trouble: http://nyer.cm/fyk1tmL  pic.twitter.com/qLqhhUrc90
      44 replies 29 retweets 309 likes
    2. Jordan E. Taylor‏ @PubliusorPerish 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @conor64

      oh I totally used tears as a weapon when I was a little boy.

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    3. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @PubliusorPerish

      I can imagine little boys in trouble using years as a distraction, or a ploy, but you’re going to have to explain “weapon” to me.

      4 replies 0 retweets 20 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @conor64 @PubliusorPerish

      Do you have kids?

      3 replies 1 retweet 31 likes
    5. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet @PubliusorPerish

      Nope. But I definitely was one.

      6 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    6. Erin Satie‏ @ErinSatie 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @conor64 @HeerJeet @PubliusorPerish

      I think some kids are canny enough to figure out that wailing loudly is upsetting/embarrassing/migraine-inducing & that they can cry to cause pain without being punished.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @ErinSatie @HeerJeet @PubliusorPerish

      I agree. I also think weaponize means “marshal a tool for violence,” not “avoid punishment by raising annoyance costs.” If we adopt the latter sense I’ll be a lot less automatically concerned when I hear about new weaponization efforts in North Korea.

      5 replies 0 retweets 26 likes
    8. Erin Satie‏ @ErinSatie 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @conor64 @HeerJeet @PubliusorPerish

      Which is why I mentioned that some kids cry to cause pain instead of simply avoid punishment. Cry around a babysitter who's been strict to make their parents fire the babysitter, for example. I once lost a job that way. Might have deserved it, but the kid knew what he was doing.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Conor Friedersdorf‏Verified account @conor64 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @ErinSatie @HeerJeet @PubliusorPerish

      He manipulated. He harmed. He did not “weaponize.” No violence was involved. Among the biggest misuses of language in our era is smuggling conflations with violence into nonviolent things to exploit the widespread consensus against initiating force

      10 replies 13 retweets 88 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Oct 2018
      Replying to @conor64 @ErinSatie @PubliusorPerish

      Sure, weaponized is an overused, hyperbolic cliche (and sad to see in New Yorker)

      12:19 PM - 5 Oct 2018
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        2. Darc Xoṣewîst ⍟‏ @darcgr 6 Oct 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @conor64 and

          No, it isn't. It's a perfectly fine and reasonable word to use when something is used to mount non-violent attacks. This literalism is also what's leading to so many people misunderstanding & dismiss political/social concepts,thinking dictionary definitions aren't be-all-end-all.

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        3. Darc Xoṣewîst ⍟‏ @darcgr 6 Oct 2018
          Replying to @darcgr @HeerJeet and

          Are*** the be-all-end-all

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