tbh I don't think any of this would have happened if not for the parenthetical
March 31, 2026 - 21:09 UTC
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i love that this whole thing spiraled because he editorialized with that parenthetical, and then spent the resulting fallout acting as if he was being misattributed to some quote... when the parenthetical is what pissed everyone off.
y'know. the "context" that he felt the need to include.
y'know. the "context" that he felt the need to include.
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Not an editorial, just paraphrasing the dumb logic of the far-right court.
His sin was not saying that logic was insanely dumb.
His sin was not saying that logic was insanely dumb.
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Yeah because it seems to come down to if you think the parenthetical is meant to be contrastive or emphatic, that is to say is it 'physical therapy which (unlike talk therapy) is really abuse' or 'physical therapy which is (just another form of) abuse'. In speech this would be clarified by stress
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("physical therapy, which is *really* abuse" vs "physical therapy, which is really *abuse*"). The thing is people assume sentences contain the smallest amount of relevant information needed to convey the ideas the speaker wishes (see: Gricean maxim of quantity) which will naturally bias someone who
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It’s neither, it’s clarifying the specific word “intervention” here, so that the reader understands that he does not mean it in the sense intervention is usually used in a mental health and/or addiction recovery context; it’s physical abuse (I would even say torture) masquerading as aid.
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