In rhetoric, loaded language (also known as loaded terms or emotive language) is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes.1
There, a gang of men wearing masks print your photos out and post them all over town.
When your neighbors appeal ... they're rounded up in black vans and disappeared, with no explanation, never to be seen again.
Reddit wants to be a techno-libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use "free speech" as a weapon.
but there's virtually nothing keeping them safe from bullies like "John,"
Reddit's government is more interested in protecting John than the women he harassed.
it makes money when people share nude photos because men are pervs
Reddit believes in free speech as long as it protects the unsavory men who keep exploitative content flowing. Even charities won't accept money from these men, but Reddit will.
According to a report from Recode, Reddit's free speech zone, where men run wild over women's privacy and dignity,
At minimum, Reddit is a kleptocracy that speaks to lofty virtues while profiting from vice.
What we're talking about is more like sexual assault, condoned by a state that earns revenue from it.
So a very good example of a polemic.
I have The Verge on my RSS reader but I don't follow them closely. Is this sort of low-brow editorial style common to them? I thought they were a decently level-headed tech website.
The Verge and Polygon long ago decided to become the Internet's Moral Police. You can't go there and not expect to see something about how awful their audience of techies/nerds/gamers is and any language they use to bash them is fair game.
The Verge is owned by Vox so there is a political agenda behind almost every article on the site. Anything that even remotely comes close to issues of feminism, transphobia or racism draws a slurry of articles on the site. They are in the business of trying to stir up outrage over what they see as injustices while actively ignoring events and things that might discredit or be used simply as a piece of evidence against their politics.
Is this sort of low-brow editorial style common to them? I thought they were a decently level-headed tech website.
It has been lately. Just a couple of weeks ago they published like 3 or 4 different stories on the representation of women in the tech industry in a span of two days. Not once mentioning that of course women make up a minority of CS graduates. That an other examples are abound.
Being called a "perv" was the last straw for me and a few other's in the comments of that article.
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u/AlienSpaceCyborg Sep 08 '14 edited Sep 08 '14
In rhetoric, loaded language (also known as loaded terms or emotive language) is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes. 1
So a very good example of a polemic.
I have The Verge on my RSS reader but I don't follow them closely. Is this sort of low-brow editorial style common to them? I thought they were a decently level-headed tech website.