Posted on 04/05/2013 11:03:11 PM PDT by neverdem
He who controls the language shapes the debate: In the same week the Associated Press announced that it would no longer describe illegal immigrants as “illegal immigrants,” the star columnist of the New York Times fretted that the Supreme Court seemed to have misplaced the style book on another fashionable minority. “I am worried,” wrote Maureen Dowd, “about how the justices can properly debate same-sex marriage when some don’t even seem to realize that most Americans use the word ‘gay’ now instead of ‘homosexual.’” She quoted her friend Max Mutchnick, creator of Will & Grace:
“Scalia uses the word ‘homosexual’ the way George Wallace used the word ‘Negro.’ There’s a tone to it. It’s humiliating and hurtful. I don’t think I’m being overly sensitive, merely vigilant.”
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Instead, the relentless propagandizing grows ever more heavy-handed: The tolerance enforcers will not tolerate dissent; the diversity celebrators demand a ruthless homogeneity. Much of the progressive agenda — on marriage, immigration, and much else — involves not winning the argument but ruling any debate out of bounds. Perhaps like Jeremy Irons you don’t have “strong feelings” on this or that, but, if you do, enjoy them while you can.
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It's not enough to defy nature and common sense. They'll go after free speech and traditional religions.
We need to start mocking all progressive nonsense.
Ping
Good Luck.
Been doing it for years, my friend.
‘most Americans use the word ‘gay’ now instead of ‘homosexual.’’
Words have meanings; just because most people call it a dick does not change the fact that it’s a penis.
“The tolerance enforcers will not tolerate dissent; the diversity celebrators demand a ruthless homogeneity.”
Another gem by Mark Steyn.
Calling Soetoro a “Christian” doesn’t change the fact that he’s a moslem.
We need to start mocking all progressive nonsense.
I’ll continue to do so.
“Progressive = Repressive”
They hate that.
And somehow get the mocking to an audience much larger than Freerepublic.
LOL - we do it for sport. Better than the smell of napalm in the morning.
Confuse them with “transgressive”.
Welcome to FR.
I appreciate that, Gene Eric. Thanks.
They'll just demonstrate their noted high tolerance by dragging out their big brush and labeling us all "HATERS". That's how they "debate", schoolyard name calling, straw man arguments, and ad-homonym attacks.
Regards,
GtG
Confuse them with “transgressive”.
LOL! I’ll do that. Thanks.
Would Ms. Dowd and Mr. Mutchnick prefer him to call them "sodomites" or "turd burglars"?
Would Maureen O’Dowd prefer they be called “Queer”?
In fact, the more militant homosexuals use the term “Queer”.... so O’Dowd should be OK with that.
We’re PC - we believe in liberty for all Mankind (and we’re smug about it); you’d better be PC, too, so use that liberty we believe in to conform, or else you’ll be persecuted, ostracized, and shunned.
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