he’s pointing out that the quotation is not exact to what the review said, but like it was a twitter post or something, and the quotated meaning was spot on anyways, so he’s being pedantic for no good reason.
the reviewer is part of the ‘media should not comment on politics’ crowd who considers a persons race or nationality, as long as it’s not the same as theirs, to be a political statement in of its self.
Nuance has meaning. While I don’t agree with the political statement the reviewer was making, it is not the same statement OP was accusing them of (though by implication, the reviewer likely does hate muslims).
This isn’t the Oxford comma where genuine misunderstandings are unlikely—using quotes incorrectly is dishonest. It isn’t pedantry to look at a quote and take it to be a direct attribution.
he’s pointing out that the quotation is not exact to what the review said, but like it was a twitter post or something, and the quotated meaning was spot on anyways, so he’s being pedantic for no good reason.
the reviewer is part of the ‘media should not comment on politics’ crowd who considers a persons race or nationality, as long as it’s not the same as theirs, to be a political statement in of its self.
so a moral-less class-less racist loser
Nuance has meaning. While I don’t agree with the political statement the reviewer was making, it is not the same statement OP was accusing them of (though by implication, the reviewer likely does hate muslims).
This isn’t the Oxford comma where genuine misunderstandings are unlikely—using quotes incorrectly is dishonest. It isn’t pedantry to look at a quote and take it to be a direct attribution.
“nobody thought I was direct quoting when I said that you are just being pedantic” - Affidavit