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No. The difference is "this guy is a problem, get rid of him" and "this is built into this particular system and is sanctioned (implicitly or explicitly) at all levels. To fix it will require bringing people at the highest levels to justice". And it's a fair take. Although I absolutely agree that just using the word without criteria is a fucking problem. Many issues we face are because different people and groups of people ain't working with the same dictionary. Sometimes it's innocent. Sometimes it's malicious.
There is a great example about the word respect. I do not know its definitive origin but it looks to be someone calling themselves AutisticAbby on tumblr.
"Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority"
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person"
and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay."