I catch a fair amount of shit because I think words ought to be used according to their meaning. Oh sure, if you want to use a word colloquially or as slang in an informal conversation, fine. But for anything official and/or anything where the meaning needs to be clear and unambiguous, pick one of the first two definitions and go with that.
Back in the day I had a house with a phone mounted on the wall. I wasn’t particularly unique in that. Most folks who had a house had a phone or ten mounted to various walls or sitting on tables. Pocket phones did not exist, we used those installed, hardwired, heavy, limited-range phones a lot.
Since most everyone with a house had a phone, they used to print up these large books with “white” pages that contained the phone numbers and addresses of everyone with a phone that did not request to be “unlisted”. These days, we walk around with our phones in our pockets or purses and while not everyone does it, an awful lot of the business cards I have been handed over the last decade or so comes with that pocket phone number on them.
dox
/däks/
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verb: dox; 3rd person present: doxes; past tense: doxed; past participle: doxed; gerund or present participle: doxing; verb: doxx; 3rd person present: doxxes; past tense: doxxed; past participle: doxxed; gerund or present participle: doxxing
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent.
Unless the supervisor’s of the individual that murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis are harboring malicious intent towards him, it would not be “doxxing” to reveal his name. As a matter of fact, it is generally accepted that for any job that is not criminal in nature, the employer is well within reason to know their employee’s name and contact info. As a taxpaying citizen of the USA, that murderous POS is my employee. Unless you are admitting that the criminality was the goal from the beginning, you need to admit that revealing his info would not be doxxing.
Speaking of those particularly heinous assaults, I have been to numerous protests. I carried signs and participated in the chants and in general, attempted to make known my displeasure at the actions of those allegedly acting on my behalf. I was a protester. Not everyone at the protests was. I have seen folks who appeared to be taking the path they normally took to get where they were going and that path happened to take them through a protest that they may or may not have known was happening. I have seen folks there because they were in opposition to the protest. I have also seen folks who appeared to be there simply to observe. Some might have been “professional” journalists. Some might have been citizen journalists. Some might have been doing opposition research or they might be there for other reasons. My point being that not everyone at a protest qualifies as a protester.
I will admit that I have been too angry to follow the news as closely as I normally do. In the service of self protection, I have had to look away as much as I can. Still, I am comfortable stating that I have not seen a single photo or a single second of video that makes me think either Good or Pretti were protesters. They were clearly observers - whether or not they claimed the mantle of journalist. Pretti appeared to be attempting to use his nursing training to assist those in physical distress. Neither of them carried signs. I have seen no video of them participating in chants. They did not call for violence against the jack-booted government thugs. They were citizens and they were supposed to be citizens with rights.
If you choose to do the Nazi’s work and refer to the victims using terms that provide cover for the criminals that murdered them, don’t be surprised to find your own name on the Nazi roles. When those two in particular were murdered, they were OBSERVING not protesting. They were murdered for observing. They had their Constitutionally mandated rights summarily taken from them for observing. Even if you know for a fact that they hated the shit Felon47 and his goon squad are doing, at the time of their murders they were simply observers and that is how you need to describe it. It would have been inexcusably wrong for them to have been murdered for protesting. It is still worse IMNSHO, that they were murdered for observing.
Do not do the Nazi’s work for them. When Good and Pretti were murdered, they were not protesting by any understanding of the word I have seen in common usage. Call out the Nazi lies when you see them. Use the words as though they have meaning. Otherwise, the Nazi’s will continue acting as though none of the words in the Constitution have any meaning.
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