TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoUS High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Videowww.ndtv.comexternal-linkmessage-square263fedilinkarrow-up1759arrow-down121
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minus-squareCarlsIII@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up28·1 year agoI’m getting pretty sick of people saying shitty things because they’re bad at metaphors. People who are bad at metaphors should just not use metaphors.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoHe didn’t use an inept metaphor. It was exactly the metaphor he meant: that women are objects, property to be exploited by his administration.
minus-squarepinkdrunkenelephantslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoIf a devil’s advocate has to use a linguistic argument to justify a bad choice, the devil’s advocate is not actually needed.
I’m getting pretty sick of people saying shitty things because they’re bad at metaphors. People who are bad at metaphors should just not use metaphors.
He didn’t use an inept metaphor. It was exactly the metaphor he meant: that women are objects, property to be exploited by his administration.
If a devil’s advocate has to use a linguistic argument to justify a bad choice, the devil’s advocate is not actually needed.