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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 23, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Agree with problem_redditor - this national review article makes a good argument if you ignore the initial invective, noting the list item is one of a hundred, and the list is, otherwise, perfectly benign.

There are a lot of words out there. If you read a bunch of them and pick the words that look the worst out of context, you can make anything look racist, sexist, pedophilic, or whatever. Now, add your own misleading context, and feed it to a population who just doesn't care to check and already sees the speaker as outgroup... you get these responses to Conor on twitter