The defense of things being "taken out of context" used to be a good one when discourses were strongly contained to single contexts. It isn't anymore. Writing in a potential-context-aware way is a reasonable expectation for 2018 media technology landscape.
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Either properly leakproof what you say so it either doesn't travel to other contexts or is incomprehensible in them (latter is my strategy...)
...OR learn to write in a way where you can see potential "unbundling" faultlines and make the pieces stand-alone in a context-free way.
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as a short-term defensive strategy, ok... but requiring such armoring forevermore will be a major drag on productive communication. long-term, let's expand principle-of-charity, both culturally & technologically
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Counterpoint: speech norms do in fact undergo secular shifts over time and overall get more civil, less status-posturey, less formal, more egalitarian etc. Also formal and profane/hostile tend to converge.
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not sure 1st sentence is counterpoint. if civility-in-interpretation (& fewer "gotcha" taboos via context-stripping) is overall trend, I say: let's get there faster! don't let any dark ages of honesty-only-in-closed-forums-&-esotericism fester by rejecting "outta-context" defense
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