Info on the bigot Nick Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(commentator)
Relevant part:
Adams opposes education regarding LGBTQ topics in schools and said that only a "bad parent" would take their children to see a drag queen show.[18] LGBTQ Nation, an online news magazine, has alleged Adam's apparent hypocrisy on this topic as he has suggested taking children to Hooters.[18]
As someone who makes knives and swords as a hobby, I can verify that many things are capable of sharpening iron. Slightly less things are capable of sharpening steel.
Know what's great at refining a dull edge to be razor sharp? Ceramic. And I have legitimately heard someone refer to ceramic safety box cutters as "woke" at work. I don't get the (il)logic of that...
So uhhhh.... Yeah. Even "softer" things will sharpen stuff.
A colleague of mine says he sharpens his knives with... leather.
I have no idea whether to believe them.
Tldr leather can be a component, but not the whole thing
So basically when sharpening, you have a few different things that all do slightly different jobs.
A sharpening stone will remove a little metal along the edge, very slowly, but that makes the edge roll over slightly along the opposing edge face. This makes the edge slightly jagged, you can usually see the reflection of light along the edge of a knife to see it. You don't want to see any shiny reflection on the edge.
To remove the rolled over edge, one method that is quite popular is to take a leather strip, rub some polishing compound into it, and you run the edge of the knife along it in a similar fashion to how you use a sharpening stone. The softer surface combined with a milder abrasive does a nice job, if you do it right.
The end result is a razor sharp knife.
Perhaps he meant that he strops his knives? Incredibly important to do so in order to maintain their sharpness.
I honestly don't even know what "iron sharpens iron" is supposed to mean.
I've heard it as "steel sharpens steel" but in the context of male children needing a male role model. I think when boys don't have a male role model growing up they end up like Nick Adams thinking they need to be an alpha male all the time.
You know, they rub their irons together to get each other all nice and pointy.
I just assume it's code for "sword fighting."
They're referencing a bible verse
Funny how the part they leave out is gender nonspecific, it just says person.
I wouldn't say Proverbs is a particularly woke book of the bible, the verse right before that one is, "A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm; restraining her is like restraining the wind or grasping oil with the hand."
That's not really the point. The point is they pick and choose what parts, even the parts of the parts, to follow. It's almost like they don't care what the book says unless it agress with them exactly already.