01-16-2023, 12:44 PM
I agree with Marko here.
But that example isn't even the most on point.
ac3r has referred to downtown as being "infested" with homeless drug addicts.
I really want to give Momo the benefit of the doubt here, but that is not a factual statement, that is a rhetorical hyperbolic and frankly hateful statement.
That's the most extreme example, but much of what ac3r says is not factual, but instead hyperbolic.
Momo is doing the same thing here, you describe your local library as "garbage". I have no idea how bad it is, I completely believe you that it is a terrible library. But unless it is literally being put in a dumpster and hauled away, calling it "garbage" is hyperbolic, not factual.
And that's fine or at least, defensible, hyperbole is a useful rhetorical tool for describing things, but using it excessively and especially negatively and divisively I don't think leads to particularly useful conversations. But the dehumanizing language--referring to human beings as an "infestation" for example--was a bit too much for me.
But that example isn't even the most on point.
ac3r has referred to downtown as being "infested" with homeless drug addicts.
I really want to give Momo the benefit of the doubt here, but that is not a factual statement, that is a rhetorical hyperbolic and frankly hateful statement.
That's the most extreme example, but much of what ac3r says is not factual, but instead hyperbolic.
Momo is doing the same thing here, you describe your local library as "garbage". I have no idea how bad it is, I completely believe you that it is a terrible library. But unless it is literally being put in a dumpster and hauled away, calling it "garbage" is hyperbolic, not factual.
And that's fine or at least, defensible, hyperbole is a useful rhetorical tool for describing things, but using it excessively and especially negatively and divisively I don't think leads to particularly useful conversations. But the dehumanizing language--referring to human beings as an "infestation" for example--was a bit too much for me.