Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s...
by enkid on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:23PM
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But your original reply didn't say "he didn't call himself a victim," it tried to argue why he was a victim. The gp to this reply was pointing out how absurd your definition of victim is. It's not making an argument about whether or not he called himself a victim, it makes an argument about what you yourself defined as a victim.
Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s...
by pessimizer on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:44PM
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I've made that argument, and you can accept it or not. The larger point is that accusing people of playing victims is always a distraction from actual argument, and the entire thread is evidence of that. It started with irrelevance and ended nowhere.
Re:Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s...
by posterboy on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:42PM
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> The larger point is that accusing people of playing victims is always a distraction from actual argume
Yes, and when they are really playing they become the victim of their own ploy.
No, it removes the personal judgement from the word "victim," where we decide whether a particular victim deserves their punishment as a preliminary to discussing their situation.
edit: i.e. where sympathetic people who are killed are victims, and unsympathetic people are killed are being portrayed as victims. It's an attempt to distract from the material facts of a situation with arguments about language.