moot
mo͞ot/
adjective
adjective: moot
1.
subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty, and typically not admitting of a final decision.
“whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point”
“a moot point”
- having no practical significance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.
- “it is moot whether this phrase should be treated as metaphor or not”
(Emphasis added)
He used the word correctly.
No, he didn’t.
My point was that whether Alamo’s practice constituted discrimination, and therefore a violation of civil rights, depended on the existence of an applicable “public-accommodation” statute in the jurisdiction in question. Then he randomly brought up the existence of alternative accommodations, which is not a controlling factor as to whether the practice qualifies as a civil-rights violation. His point might have been moot, but my point was decisive regardless of his random observation.
That’s the opposite of moot.
[The Idmonster said:]
You don’t wanna step ta dis.