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  • You’d feel like this too if someone from your community happened to be in a photo with Epstein & co. The church may indeed house pedophiles but for me it’s hard to imagine the pope actually knew about Epstein’s rape island when this photo was taken.

    I would not update either way based on this meme.








  • jaselle@lemmy.catoWitches VS Patriarchy@lemmy.caWe did
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    For me, you can’t use ‘give’ if there was no action on the giver’s behalf, but coerced action counts as action. Same with take – you ‘take’ something only if you’re capable of a ‘take’ action. So if you’re in a coma, you can’t ‘take’ anything offered to you (except in idiomatic phrases where action on the taker isn’t expected, e.g. “to take abuse”).

    This is why I seriously believe that OP’s image is controversial more do to a difference in our linguistic understanding of the word “give” than do to a differing understanding of the facts.

    Edit: I think what may be happening here is the so-called “non-central” fallacy.




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    Yes, this is essentially the sense in which I mean “give.” You got it. This is unironically why the OP image is ragebait – “give” is literally what happened. I don’t know of anyone who would deny the suffragettes and their agitation are the reason women were given the right to vote.