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OK, point to where I dismissed something. Do you think saying something is a semantic argument is dismissing it? I was making the semantic argument. I don't know if you read the full comment, but it is totally about the semantics —about how staged and fake are not mutually exclusive. Do you think I was dismissing my own argument?
I feel like people read the word "semantics" and short-circuited. They think the word only means "pointless" or something. I used it to say that I was going to be making a semantic argument.
"Neither are definitely correct" - it's right there, and although I guess you didn't intend that, it's what you were doing.
You're not being criticized because people "short-circuted" or failed understand your comment (it wasn't exactly complex), you're being criticized because you did an incredibly common thing and then you have evidently failed to understand that's what you were doing.