Text has a tone. It's not hard to discern the tone from something like: "This decision is a bunch of woke nonsense invented by self-righteous white elites." Such language is immediately off-putting and NEVER helps any argument. When one makes a calm, logical argument without superlatives, generalizations etc., then the message will be recieved without offense and is much more likely to be considered, even if the same (much more tactfully stated) conclusion is reached.
Sorry but that's crap.
I can easily write that without foaming at the mouth, you infer what is not there and the example you use is factually correct so why should one tip-toe around the isssue?
Some of the stuff coming from the other side which involves claims of racism, are most definitely rants.
The actual definition is this - '
to speak, write (capital letters in print, right?) or shout in a
loud, uncontrolled, or angry way', I argue that whilst you may think you can infer some physical actions from a writer, most often, you'd be wrong. I didn't highlight 'angry' there because one can be calm yet angry at the same time. If I were to write something like stay away from my wife or I'll effing kill you', this could be presumed to be a rant but even that, can be verbalised without loss of control.
I argue that you can only guess, at how the person, writing the words is acting, if he's throwing his arms around and swearing or if he's the personification of calm. I don't consider what I write to be any kind of rant. I write what I think and I'm calm when I do it. One observation is that the longer an opinion piece is, it's more likely to earn the title of being a rant.
The other thing,
offence, your free speach rights include the right to 'offend' unless it's against one of the so called 'protected' classes. and just because one me feel offended, you have no right to describe the writers words as a rant, just because you don't like them.
Bottom line, rant is an over used word in relation to the written word and most often used by people whose argument is being dismantled and who want to arrogantly dismiss a view point without addressing it. I'm writing this after packing my six year old off to school and I'm calmly, sipping my tea, no rant going on here.