> And conversely, you don’t get to assume that others understand you when you use language in ways that aren’t colloquial.

Yep! It was a failure of all parties involved that the two competing definitions of racism weren't laid out on the table, when people started getting huffy.

> Shared definitions is the bedrock of human communication, and absent that, we’re no better than chimps just grunting past each other.

(laughs) Lay it on thick, why don't you?