daniel craig
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I see it all the time, gun guys talking and one uses the incorrect term and it’s brushed off because ‘you know what I meant’ and people discussing whether terminology matters.
My thought is this ‘we’ as the firearm/gun owning community seem to have two different standards when it comes to knowledge and the correct use of terminology. We tend to brush it off when someone in the community messes this up while jumping down the throats of people outside the community when they mess it up. It shows our hypocrisy and makes us looks like a rabid good old boys club. Terms like clip/mag or assault rifle or auto/semi-auto and countless others.
When the standards are different, any legitimate correction for the sake of knowledge looks like an attack because we don’t make the correction among our brethren. It’s my opinion that if we’re to make progress towards/against the things we care about the only way to do so is if we’re seen as levelheaded ‘willing to teach’ intellectuals who adhere to a standard, and that starts with semantics.
Thus, I challenge you, brethren to always be as correct as possible and to politely make/take corrections when required. The little things do matter.
Edit: I had considered moving this to a to activism forum, let me know if I need to do so.
Edit 2: ok so it's becoming clear to me that what I'm trying to say is not as apparent as I thought it was. Perhaps that's due to the poor title.
------ What I'm trying to say is that these things either matter or they don't but we shouldn't change whether they matter or not based on the groups using them. It's been my experience that gun guys seem to be a bit more forgiving of other gun guys making a mistake but when an anti-gun person makes the same mistake the gun community is less forgiving. It either matters or it doesn't. Uniformity. THAT'S what I'm trying to get at, I'm sorry if it wasn't clear.
My thought is this ‘we’ as the firearm/gun owning community seem to have two different standards when it comes to knowledge and the correct use of terminology. We tend to brush it off when someone in the community messes this up while jumping down the throats of people outside the community when they mess it up. It shows our hypocrisy and makes us looks like a rabid good old boys club. Terms like clip/mag or assault rifle or auto/semi-auto and countless others.
When the standards are different, any legitimate correction for the sake of knowledge looks like an attack because we don’t make the correction among our brethren. It’s my opinion that if we’re to make progress towards/against the things we care about the only way to do so is if we’re seen as levelheaded ‘willing to teach’ intellectuals who adhere to a standard, and that starts with semantics.
Thus, I challenge you, brethren to always be as correct as possible and to politely make/take corrections when required. The little things do matter.
Edit: I had considered moving this to a to activism forum, let me know if I need to do so.
Edit 2: ok so it's becoming clear to me that what I'm trying to say is not as apparent as I thought it was. Perhaps that's due to the poor title.
------ What I'm trying to say is that these things either matter or they don't but we shouldn't change whether they matter or not based on the groups using them. It's been my experience that gun guys seem to be a bit more forgiving of other gun guys making a mistake but when an anti-gun person makes the same mistake the gun community is less forgiving. It either matters or it doesn't. Uniformity. THAT'S what I'm trying to get at, I'm sorry if it wasn't clear.
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