Someone in Dogetown files a police report that a dog-bite has been
committed. A public news anchor Alpha on a popular but partisan
leaning media platform Hound News uses the ambiguous but associative
term “pitiful” to refer to a subsect of the problems that the canine country
is facing. A news anchor for Canine News Network, another partisan
leaning media platform, Buddy, hears Alpha’s report, identifies the word
as a breedist encoding for “pitbull” and concludes that Alpha, the station,
the audience and/or all involved are incorrigible breedists.
An independent political commentator Charlie hears Buddy’s report,
identifies the interpretation of “pitbull” from the word “pitiful” as a
willful misunderstanding, and concludes that Buddy, her station, her
audience and all are incorrigible anti-breedists. Another political
commentator Duke hears Charlie’s report, identifies Charlie’s rejection
of Buddy’s interpretation as itself sympathy for Alpha’s interpretation,
which is construed then as expressing sympathy for a breedist position.
Political disagreement bristles.
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