This past month has been like a “Greatest Hits” of bad takes and worse behavior in the online world of reading and writing. A common theme is people misappropriating and weaponizing the language of legitimate issues to justify misbehavior, which is not only tacky and obnoxious, it minimizes those issues and undermines the language needed to discuss them.

Tiktok influencers have once again encouraged readers to take advantage of loopholes in Amazon that allow readers to return e-books or audioboo...