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joe40001 posted...

It could be due to me being on the spectrum. But honestly kinda yes. I don't generally correct people IRL like this. And while the first two aren't wrong, the second two versions are much more clear. Also, I wouldn't regularly attribute manipulative motives to those who lean too hard on ambiguity. That being said, I do still strongly believe ambiguity hinders progress in important political domains, and thus specificity should be employed there.

For example, if a city council is allocating workers and resources to 3 schools, and all 3 schools say "our students don't have access to clean drinking water!" how do you think the city council should respond? Send them all the same workers and resources?

What if I told you that:
School 1 has access to water from the city, but it's dirty from bad plumbing.
School 2 has good plumbing, but isn't receiving any water flow from the city.
and
School 3 has good plumbing, and good access to the city's water, but inaccessible water fountains.

All 3 schools wouldn't be "wrong" in their statements, but the city council would be unable to effectively help them because while none of the schools were saying a wrong statement, they were not being sufficiently specific about the problem. And so 3 very different problems got treated as equivalent, and people suffer.

To address real problems in the real world you need to be specific, characterizing things with ambiguous and/or emotionally charged rhetoric IMO hurts and doesn't help.

I'm also on the spectrum and I think you're just heartless because this doesn't actually affect you. You can't muster empathy, so you'll pretend to show concern but with a hitch. "I understand you people believe you are having your rights restricted, but you can't go and be emotional about. That won't convince anyone to meet in the middle."

Recognize your own shortcomings instead of insisting everyone else is screwing up. You recognize that truly horrific things have happened throughout history, even in America! But, for some reason, you find it impossible that any pushback against poor LGBTQ people could come from a place of hatred. You came to a conclusion that it's confusion and lack of good communication and you're building backwards to justify your hypothesis.