You sure as shit don’t. They used the quotation marks just fine. So fine in fact, that this usage you are so against is a well established grammatical device, look up “scare quotes”.
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intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months agoDo you even understand what quotation marks mean? WeirdGuy didn’t say that.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wasn’t literally quoting him.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which is totally fine. Your usage of them as you did would be called a scare quote.