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Washington Post Changes Fareed Zakaria Headline Instructing Democrats to ‘Forget Pronouns’ after Twitter Backlash
Mediaite ^ | 15 July 2022 | Ben Kirsch

Posted on 07/16/2022 5:44:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The Washington Post changed the headline of an opinion piece by Fareed Zakaria after facing intense backlash on Twitter over the suggestion that Democrats should “Forget Pronouns.”

The article was first posted on Thursday with the headline, “Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things,” and Zakaria shared the article on Twitter with the commentary that getting “stuff done” is “a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns.”

Zakaria’s message was widely criticized, with many emphasizing the importance of respecting pronouns and paying attention to the needs of transgender people. Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, wrote, “It is wildly inappropriate to instruct Democrats to toss aside an entire group of Americans in order to win.”

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Let them obsess over and focus on pronouns. Meanwhile the rest of us - the rest of the country - can move on and deal with real problems.
1 posted on 07/16/2022 5:44:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Will “thing “ or “it “ work for them?


2 posted on 07/16/2022 5:47:15 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Rummyfan

“Zakaria’s message was widely criticized, with many emphasizing the importance of respecting pronouns and paying attention to the needs of transgender people.”

The only thing needed by trans people is therapy.
There are all kinds of therapy. Certainly there is a discipline that would be effective.


3 posted on 07/16/2022 5:51:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Rummyfan

Fareed’s new pronoun: “was”


4 posted on 07/16/2022 5:52:00 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Rummyfan

Their attempts to get US to pay attention to pronouns is an effort to divert our energy from addressing real problems. SMH at former colleagues who now include their preferred pronouns in their linkedin profiles.


5 posted on 07/16/2022 5:54:36 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: Rummyfan

I’m not sophisticated enough to use PROnouns. That’s why I stick to amateur nouns like “freaks” and “pedos” to describe these perverts.


6 posted on 07/16/2022 5:56:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Rummyfan
Fareed has strayed off the plantation and will be taken to Room 101 to get his mind right.

Of course most of the useful idiots have been brainwashed into believing that choosing their own pronouns is some kind of assertion of personal autonomy and rebellion and any effort to normalize pronoun usage is an act of oppression by a male dominated hierarchy to oppress them.

The puppet masters on the left, on the other hand, understand what Orwell wrote about language, and if you control language you ultimately control thought. That's what's behind this nonsense, and the vocal proponents of pronoun choice are totally oblivious to it.

7 posted on 07/16/2022 6:00:05 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Rummyfan

The problem is the people obsessed with pronouns are in control of everything and show no signs of going away!


8 posted on 07/16/2022 6:00:10 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: HighSierra5

Who among us can possibly remember the “correct” pronouns to use anyway? Grammar is an almost forgotten art as it is, and this only further complicates an already complicated language.

Perhaps this an attempt to recreate the confusion that marked the building of the Tower of Babel. Similar sounding words that have completely contradictory meanings.


9 posted on 07/16/2022 6:01:16 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Rummyfan

This is from the piece:

“Democrats need to once more become the party that gets stuff done, builds things and makes government work for people. That’s a lot more important to most Americans than using the right pronouns.”

This shows that the headline is not only reasonable, regarding the headline, it’s a dead-on summation.

So the message from this headline re-write is not the specifics, but rather the power the militant Left has over its own media. Seems that the militants get the final word, even over the media they control.


10 posted on 07/16/2022 6:06:36 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: Rummyfan

This conclusion is unavoidable. By using those “preferred pronouns” we are bowing down to the wishes of a select few, accepting them as our overlords, and doing their bidding.


11 posted on 07/16/2022 6:11:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First!)
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To: Rummyfan

EXACTLY right
Seeing them eat their own makes my day
Great link!


12 posted on 07/16/2022 6:13:26 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: Rummyfan

It amazes me the people that insist on being led around by the nose by the demands of a tiny, tiny fraction of the population.


13 posted on 07/16/2022 6:19:43 AM PDT by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: BobL

The “establishment” Democrats want to keep slowly boiling the frog, or at least stop folks from talking about boiling the frog.

The hardcore leftist wing of the party wants to execute the frog with extreme prejudice.


14 posted on 07/16/2022 6:19:53 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Rummyfan

“Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, wrote, “It is wildly inappropriate to instruct Democrats to toss aside an entire group of Americans in order to win.””

But the little prancing sodomite thinks it is appropriate to toss aside an entire culture for the benefit of a statistically negligible percent of the population.


15 posted on 07/16/2022 6:26:07 AM PDT by odawg ( )
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To: Rummyfan
Here’s a sample of the new pronouns we’re supposed to be using. Ridiculous stuff...unless you work for a woke company. Then you had better get with the program.


16 posted on 07/16/2022 6:28:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Rummyfan

And the amateurnouns don’t even get a mention.


17 posted on 07/16/2022 6:31:45 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: alloysteel

That’s what I’ve been saying. Why complify the simplicated?


18 posted on 07/16/2022 6:34:48 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Leaning Right

These people are dangerously insane.

See my tag line.

L


19 posted on 07/16/2022 6:36:19 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Rummyfan

“after facing intense backlash on Twitter “

How many of those are bots?

We live in the Matrix.

As Rush used to say, people think that Twitter is reality.


20 posted on 07/16/2022 7:07:28 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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