"Willful stupidity" was exactly the term I used in commenting to witchqueen.
There's a concept that surrounds language called "connotation." It's why intelligent people use a particular word and not another which has a similar meaning but different overtones or slant.
The OED definition quoted doesn't show the connotation (most dictionaries don't, for crying out loud). That doesn't exempt an English-speaking person from understanding that "interracial relationships" and "miscegenation" have different meanings.
Unless a knife and an ax are the same thing, because both can cut. :(
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There's a concept that surrounds language called "connotation." It's why intelligent people use a particular word and not another which has a similar meaning but different overtones or slant.
The OED definition quoted doesn't show the connotation (most dictionaries don't, for crying out loud). That doesn't exempt an English-speaking person from understanding that "interracial relationships" and "miscegenation" have different meanings.
Unless a knife and an ax are the same thing, because both can cut. :(