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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Deliberate misrepresentation can only be employed if one understands the original intent.

If a malicious person wants to try to convince others "Black Lives Matter" means "only black lives matter", they may have a pretty clear shot (assuming they're trying to convince someone Right of Centre).

If it was rebranded to "Black Lives Matter Too", then they would have a harder time trying to be deceitful.

I'm convinced there are more people in the camp of failing to read between the lines.

In either case, language games are important; playing poorly will lead to catastrophic outcomes. The worst part is this is so easy to correct for - a little bit of imagination will illustrate predictable backlash, or lack thereof.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fair enough. My conservative family is on the side of purposefully misunderstanding, but I can understand that some may just misunderstand and we should mitigate that when we can.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    God damn, I don't envy you.

    Having a family which is consciously malicious must make for some very frustrating conversations.

    I, on the other hand, have a right-of-centre family who are mostly just too dull to extrapolate, and spend too much time on FB.

    At least in my case I can sometimes dispel misconceptions.

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