[IshKebab]

Oh that's not what I understand it to mean. It's more like highlighting or challenging.

See meaning 4.3 here:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/call_out

Like someone close to Trump could call him out by saying to him that Meloni didn't beg for a photo with him.

[dang]

That definition is close to what I mean! But I think you'll find that in online vernacular, to "call $person out for $thing" has the association of publicly shaming $person for some $thing that the caller-outer believes they did, considers bad, and wishes to punish them for and/or pressure them into not doing again.

[dredmorbius]

Seems to me that there's a distinction between calling out a practice or trope and calling out a person.

I do the former with ... some regularity (e.g., mis-statements of Weber's definition of government). Where trite/tired comments are frequent, push-back or corrections are also going to be somewhat repetitive.

In this thread, dropping "What a load of hogwash" from IshKebab's original reply would have left a perfectly cromulent point. That phrase itself does go against HN's civility guidelines. The comment it replies to is ... tired.

[IshKebab]

Oh yeah good point - that is definitely part of the woke movement. I didn't mean it in that sense anyway.