Posted on 08/21/2007 9:49:07 AM PDT by grandpa jones
Some time after reading n2l’s latest post, it occurred to me that a certain word has been misappropriated by the PC nazis. It occurred to me because n2l used the word correctly. And it provided a contrast to the “empowerment usage,” purposely designed and deliberately employed to give power and authority to otherwise disparate groups, all on the political left.
It’s a word that has migrated to common usage in the mainstream, and, it’s a word that I’ve grown increasingly tired of.
“Community.”
The practitioners of leftwinguistics who wrote the Wikipedia definition talk about a “human community” as sharing “intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.”
Utter piffle and balderdash.
Whether it’s the muslim community, the African-American community, the Latino community, the immigration rights community, the gay and lesbian community, and so on, and so on, and so on, the irony is delicious: the same people who employ this “empowerment word” to claim commonality and absolute moral authority over their issue of choice are the first people to complain of “stereotyping” and “profiling” when they fail to get exactly what they want, when they want it.
Words mean things. Words have power. This particular word has begun to fall harshly on my ears, and awaken my inner redneck.
I’m not going to play their game anymore.
The African-American cult, the Latino cult, the immigration rights cult, the gay and lesbian cult, and so and and so on
And scooby dooby doo.
yeah, and increasingly since the 1970’s
>peoples<
as in:
1 peoples, 2 peoples, 3 peoples ....
I like that!
Yup, shorthand for “peoples republic of...”
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