I don’t think I will ever get over a federal courthouse, a seat of justice, being adorned with “murder holes” — slots in the protective facade from which law enforcement surveil the crowd or shoot at protesters.
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Replying to @jadewhisk @sarahjeong
It’s literally the architecture term for them
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @sarahjeong
Really? They changed its meaning? Odd, I can only find the original definition for them...
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Replying to @jadewhisk @sarahjeong
There’s no “they” and it didn’t change dude.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @sarahjeong
So perhaps you could explain to me how you'd use a murder hole to survey a crowd outside a building and to shoot from?
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I assume she's referring to the loopholes in the barricade. Regardless, pretty sure etymological pedantry misses the rather salient point that this is *not* what comes to mind when the phrase "keep the peace" is uttered.
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I'm pretty sure you are missing the point that misrepresenting the truth in order to crowbar in some emotive language is propaganda, not journalism.
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Mate, we're talking mediaeval architecture that's functionally equivalent bar a difference of 90°. You're being a pendant. Moreover, if we're talking emotive, less-than-perfect terminology, maybe lay off the P word. She's using rhetoric, but it's neither systematic nor is it 1/
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But it's not "functionally equivalent", is it? And THE POINT of the comparison originally made depends on their symbolic integration into the structure of the building. Without that, it's meaningless hyperbole.
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It is completely functionally equivalent
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