The tweet that spawned this is *literally* about, when someone says 2 + 2 = 5, if they're saying || || = |||, or basing it in something else. That would be that pesky "definitions and axioms" part. Y'know, as far as "what we're talking about".
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Actually, that was a framing imposed on a point that didn’t initially have that framing.
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I mean, the framing was a stupid incredibly general metaphor aimed at everyone James doesn't like, so it wasn't worth saying in the first place
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But to the extent what James meant was "Words have simple definitions, obvious truths don't need to be questioned, and anyone trying to complicate things is a bad actor who should be silenced", he's the ignorant asshole
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And even the metaphors he tries to use as sloppy rhetoric so he doesn't actually have to defend his beliefs ("Men have penises and women have vaginas!" as his equivalent of "2+2 = 4") don't actually hold up the way he thinks they do
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Non-sequitur shift to gender here, among other things.
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If you genuinely, seriously think that James' real concern is that someday soon children will no longer understand what numbers are -- that this isn't a figleaf for other culture war shit -- then you're more of an idiot than he is
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You’re presenting different arguments for fighting the Man that defines || as 2. That’s cause for concern, and the link between that and gender is completely ridiculous.
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No, your concern is in fact what is completely ridiculous
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So a concern about losing basic shared understanding is ridiculous, apparently.
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It is, it's obviously absurd
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Not to mention that by far the biggest obstacle to shared understanding is right-wingers arguing that certain concepts simply should not exist within that shared understanding because of difficulty adapting.
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