I don’t believe in the concept of hate speech. one person’s hate speech is another person’s politics or religion, or art. the concept of protected classes simply comes with hegemonic political power. That’s tyranny of the minority and I don’t buy it into it. I don’t see why emotion matters for language. Language is just ideas. Ideas shouldn’t have human rights.
Canada doesn’t even have free speech anymore tho
formal English
I’m perfectly happy to give orthographic dominion to Webster. They can be our Academie Francaise. They can control the definition drift. And the pedants can use their educational privilege to suppress the poors. As it should be.
I didn’t say they weren’t. I just reject the notion that proper definitions aren’t gatekeeping. I’m not joining the above argument. I understand the definition is based on usage and the usage has changed. Most humans are morons and don’t know how to use words properly so they let language change over time.
Defining things properly isn’t gatekeeping. You said narrow. I didn’t.
Defining words properly isn’t gatekeeping, it’s categorization.
Meme has come to mean cartoon. Your usage is no different.
Meme doesn’t NOT originally mean cartoon, it just means a viral idea.
Missing my point.