Hot take on the Coronavirus
Comparing the mortality rate of the #Coronavirus to the mortality rate of the flu is idiotic and stupid because there's a vaccine/cure for the flu; there isn't for the #Coronavirus.
Hot take on the Coronavirus
I feel it's better and like, you know, less racist and stuff... (racism as a euphemism for anything offensive that might hurt someone's feelings) to say "it's not 100% accurate" rather than say "its idiotic".
Hot take on the Coronavirus
Hot take on the Coronavirus
2. That's why I said it's a euphemism. I was being sarcastic/humorous. The word racist has been so over used... what does it even mean anymore?
1. I feel it's better because you are basically calling every person who made that comparison an idiot. And that's not accurate. Someone who says a less than accurate statement hasn't said something "idiotic", maybe they were just using the closest situation they could think of at the time.
Everything that is incorrect, isn't automatically "idiotic". It's just a very problematic (to borrow a PC term you might understand) way of saying it because it encourages conflict. You know someone will get their feelings hurt because you called them an idiot and they will probably come at you with something a little worse than "idiotic" and it will escalate from there. All because you wanted to feel high and mighty by insulting a large percentage of people.
At the end of the day its not That big a deal. But you asked so, I thought you deserved a proper answer. I make these same mistakes all the time. But maybe if someone pointed it out and explained it to me every now and then, I might grow to be a better person... who knows?
Hot take on the Coronavirus
@en1gmat0 Hey np man! 👍🏾
Hot take on the Coronavirus
Oh, I must've been getting tired last night. You said idiotic AND stupid.
Now, stupid alone by itself could've been a decent way to do it. Because that seems to only imply that the IDEA is stupid...but the word idiotic implies that an idiot was involved... Saying "this game is stupid" has a whole different implication than saying "this game is idiotic". When you said idiotic, it almost sounds like you're saying the people who made the game and anyone who enjoys it, is an idiot. When you say stupid, it just makes it seem like it's your opinion and it's more about you and the way you feel than it is about other people being stupid. Even though it does imply the makers of the game failed to make a game that wasn't stupid...it somehow doesn't imply that the makers themselves were stupid. Strange right? Idiotic and stupid are synonyms, they mean the same thing, essentially. But they can have very different implications for the reader. Interesting right?
Hot take on the Coronavirus, cont.
If you want to be serious, compare the death rates of the #Coronavirus to the percentage of those who die from the flu who * don't * have the vaccine