All hits were perfectly innocent (I was talking ABOUT the word itself, never once actually using it), and I pointed this out.
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You seem to generally have trouble with the idea that words mean more than they literally say and that the choice to make a statement at all and the means one chooses to make it reveal more about the speaker than the formal information-value of the statement
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Hence the fact that if, say, I were to stand in front of a woman and shout "I HAVE A PENIS" I would be sexually harassing her, even though my statement would not only be a true statement but one that conveys no new information beyond what most people already assumed to be true
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petition to re-define the use-mention fallacy to refer to "i didn't *use* [slur], i only mentioned it!"
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fun facts, the above tweet commits the use-mention fallacy, but also nobody cares because in normal speech everyone can easily parse use-mention fallacies
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I have read it. I'm aware you CAN do all sorts of creative things with words. It's just that I'm not doing any of what I'm being accused if.
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No you haven't, because that's not what the book is about
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