[Disclaimer] - I am not an American and I consider myself atheist, I am Caucasian and born in a pre-dominantly Christian country.

Based on my limited knowledge of Christianity, it is all about social justice, compassion and peace.

And I was always wondering how come Republicans are perceiving themselves as devout Christians while the political party they support is openly opposing those virtues and if this doesn’t make them hypocrites?

For them the mortal enemy are the lefties who are all about social justice, helping the vulnerable and the not so fortunate and peace.

Christianity sounds to me a lot more like socialist utopia.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    3·
    4 months ago

    The usage of the word as it is common in the USA is incorrect

    Etymological prescriptivism is not really a tenable point in linguistics. You can argue that, for instance, in American English the Dutch word ‘rekening’ (bill) is abused as reckoning. And you can find literally thousands of examples like that.

    I’m this case a non native speaker used the American English vernacular correctly. You argue that the word is used incorrectly in this vernacular, and it is very peculiar and steeped in the racial discourse of the country. However it’s usage was correct in this case.

    • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
      14·
      4 months ago

      I mean, sure, you Japanese person you. No silly, being called Japanese has nothing to do with being from Japan, why would you even think that?

        • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
          11·
          4 months ago

          I am trying to demonstrate how absurd it is to use the demonym for one region of the world to refer to the inhabitants of a completely different part of the world

          • Akasazh@feddit.nl
            2·
            4 months ago

            I understand that, and I don’t dispute that either. I only point out that that is how language works. Your free to discuss the intricacies and weirdness of how that term became to mean that.

            However you can’t berate a language user (certainly a non native speaker) for using the term in it’s connotation. It’s like shaming someone calling the Magyar people ‘Hungarian’.