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your hateful response will have no change on anything whatsoever


Hateful?

Really? Providing definitions of words that seem not to be in one's vocabulary is hateful?

Let's see:

hateful[0] (adjective) 1 : full of hate : malicious 2 : deserving of or arousing hate

Defining words arouses hate?

Should I warn the fine folks over at Merriam Webster that you might come for them?

Or is it that you think suggesting that context is an important part of understanding language is a hateful endeavour?

Please, do tell. This is fascinating!

I wish you well and hope there are folks who will welcome you and make you feel loved. Is that more hateful stuff too, friend?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hateful


it’s your tone and an assumption that i don’t understand the definition of context. it is hateful disagreements like this that radicalize people. your response was hateful, reword it without defining words for people.


Nope.

Not gonna happen.

It's not hateful at all. I wish you no ill will whatsoever.

I'm just calling out what seems pretty clearly to be your lack of nuance/flexibility of the language. Which is something you might expect from a recent English language learner or a child.

Are you one of those? If not, you're pretty clearly being deliberately obtuse.

I won't hazard a guess as to why you might do such a thing, as that would likely be uncharitable.

I'll sum up, in case you're still confused: Calling you out for your tone deafness and/or deliberate obtuseness isn't hateful at all.

In fact, it's meant to inform you of the above as a service, so that you might provide higher quality discourse here.

As for being "hateful," I have no quarrel with you. I wish no harm on you, nor have you earned my ire. Rather, I have no strong feelings about you one way or the other.

If a mild remonstration is considered to be "hateful" by you, I can hardly imagine your reaction to actual verbal abuse. I expect it wouldn't be pretty.




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