I’m vehemently against many working definitions of “apologist” and can I just say it cuts down my good opportunities for display names, like a bastard
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“Unapologetic” implies someone who isn’t me might see legitimate grounds to apologize where I didn’t, which makes them feel validated in dismissing me as uniquely an outlier, so I reject it out of hand That genre, you know
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Replying to @chrysopoetics
Yeah but like in the sense of my display name, one could be an unapologetic apologist, because "apology" has totally changed meaning (I know you know this, just can't sleep and am rambling)
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics
Like a Christian apologist is also likely to be described as "unapologetic about his faith"
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Oh, for sure But, like, someone stanning Peter Parker would usually not have any environmental prompts leading them to self-ID as unapologetic /or/ to call their stanning apologia, yeah?
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Replying to @chrysopoetics
Probably not, at least not in most social circles I certainly take "apologist" in the present dialect to mean "defending something unpopular"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @chrysopoetics
A pithy way to say it is that the old meaning of "apology/apologia" is "defense" and the modern meaning is "surrender", but both defense and surrender imply that you are directly responding to being attacked
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I guess even that isn't accurate because in the modern sense you totally can offer an unprompted, unnecessary apology But still
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