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‘People of Color’ and ‘2SLGBITQIA+’: Using Language to Enforce Subordination
American Thinker ^ | 17 Jul, 2023 | William Sullivan

Posted on 07/17/2023 5:19:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Forcing you to participate in the absurdity is the actual purpose.

Recently, Arizona Republican Eli Crane was rebuked for referring to “people of color” as “colored people.”

That’s a controversy which would, at any other time in the history of the English language, be incomprehensible to a sensible reader. After all, there’s no practical difference in the phrases. In fact, the choice to give preference to the phrase “people of color” is worse than practically useless to an English speaker -- it’s needlessly more burdensome to both the talker and the listener.

Consider this formula with any other trait. Would you refer to yourself as a “person of dark hair,”

SNIP

Many years ago, we were presented with a political coalition called LGB (lesbian, gay, bisexual), which later became LGBT somewhere in the 1990s to include transexuals. This later became LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA in recent years.

Back in March of 2022, when ESPN analysts protested a Florida bill which prohibits K-3 instruction regarding sexuality (with which nearly two-of-three Americans openly agree), the announcer referenced the coalition as “LGBTQIA+.”

That is eight, count ‘em, eight syllables that people are expected to speak whenever referencing this expanding group of supposedly marginalized people who, outside of their unusual sexual proclivities and/or peculiar means of self-identification, are otherwise completely unrelated. But that ridiculous acronym has quickly became the standard in professing one’s progressive bona fides here in America.

And yet -- there seems to be no consensus on the basic meaning of some of the letters of the acronym we’re meant to profess and chant in unison each June. Does the Q stand for “queer,” or “questioning?” Does the A stand for “asexual” or “allies?” It all seems to very much depend on whom you ask.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2plus2equals5; newspeak; orwellian; virtuesignaling; wokeism
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
--- "It requires one to defend a position wholly created by someone else. Strawman."

Very correct. "So what you;'re saying is...." as perfected by now-famous Cathy Newman of the BBC and her cronies. More straw men to be scarecrows in a field of outright lies and half-truths.

Best wishes.

21 posted on 07/17/2023 5:59:44 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

July is “Normal Pride” month.

Celebrate Normalacy.


22 posted on 07/17/2023 6:02:03 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Melinda in TN

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4168432/reply?c=20

Read GrannyAnn’s post, slowly and think, “Frames of Discipline”.


23 posted on 07/17/2023 6:03:36 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: GrannyAnn

GrannyAnn:

I’ve found the best course for such controlling efforts is to be ungovernable at every level.
Double-down on your position.
Go all “Dave Ramsay” on them.
Just
Don’t
Comply.


24 posted on 07/17/2023 6:05:37 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Gen.Blather

Can we put an “H” in there for heterosexual?


25 posted on 07/17/2023 6:11:57 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: KrisKrinkle

“Can we put an “H” in there for heterosexual?”

If you want the H it would mathematically read H not equal to 2SLGTBQIA+ .

That not equal would mean legally, financially, socially, etc.


26 posted on 07/17/2023 6:17:29 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: MtnClimber

“LGBTQIA+” aka LGBTQIA+FUBAR


27 posted on 07/17/2023 6:21:27 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber

These labels are part of the overall picture: “marginalized” people have now become dominant over normal people.

Normal people are now subject to their new masters, who can get them fired or thrown in jail, and who claim the right to their money and property.


28 posted on 07/17/2023 6:38:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Exactly right! I was anti-this-vax and will probably be anti-future-vax unless it’s actually a life-or-death situation like smallpox or polio. I have been labeled anti-vax. Not true. I just don’t trust now like I did pre-Covid.


29 posted on 07/17/2023 6:38:52 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: BBQToadRibs2

With a couple of lowercase letters in there, it’d make a pretty good password.


30 posted on 07/17/2023 6:42:07 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Melinda in TN
--- " I have been labeled anti-vax. Not true. I just don't trust now like I did pre-Covid."

Thanks for that. My wife and I both remain without the Biden-approved jab, and no worse for wear. Some in the extended family got the mRNA "safe and effective" jabs, and then a Covid infection (according to their tests) and one has had three recurrences of the "effective"-protected illness (Or the flu / cold). We've avoided none of these in the extended family even when "ill," and are regularly bolstered with God-shining vitamin D and plenty of C and other good things of which the CDC has warned against....

Best wishes.

31 posted on 07/17/2023 6:44:03 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: GrannyAnn
There needs to be a generic, all-encompassing response that puts you back on offense and shuts the moron up

There are lots of those, but none can be printed here.

32 posted on 07/17/2023 6:44:41 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Same happened in my family. My daughter, SIL, and granddaughter took the vax. Daughter and SIL both got Covid shortly after. My daughter just had emergency surgery for a gallbladder attack and has been sick since she had the vax with long covid. All of my siblings had natural covid but got the vax anyway. My baby sister has had covid three times since the vax. One sister-in-law has too. My husband and I have been around them and neither of us have been sick. He’s almost 85.


33 posted on 07/17/2023 6:47:54 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: MtnClimber

The lefties/Democrats have lost most of America. So they go through the alphabet to create their little rag-tag coalition of misfits and add that to their already pathetic voting base.


34 posted on 07/17/2023 6:51:39 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: BBQToadRibs2

>>2SLGBITQIA+

There’s video out there of Turdeau saying that whole string, or most of it, in a speech or short presentation. I thought it was a deep fake at first, then realized it was all too real.


35 posted on 07/17/2023 6:55:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Melinda in TN
Thanks again for the additional anecdotes.

As some have observed, in real science, anecdotes amass to data and evidence. The evidence I has seen throughout the "pandemic" is that the WHO, CDC, China, the EU, FDA and more have falsified "data" and disregarded evidence to produce outright marketing for the big pharma companies.

And out the other end of the Covid "event," the predicted 3.4 percent mortality rate per year has been demonstrably calculated to be a minor 0,087 percent mortality over more than three years.

Your anecdote -- a datum as evidence -- and ours jive more with the real numbers, while the "jabbed" seem to have become more susceptible to respiratory disease.

36 posted on 07/17/2023 6:55:55 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

My daughter’s asthma is much worse now than before the vax. She is having to take breathing treatments she wasn’t taking before. I also have asthma and my doctor tried to pressure me into taking it, but I refused. She even said, “It’s people like you that won’t be vaccinated that are spreading the variants.” How does that even work? I still wouldn’t take it. LOL


37 posted on 07/17/2023 6:58:38 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: GrannyAnn

I prefer the simple and direct response - GFY. I’m not talking about saying the letters, I say ALL THREE WORDS clearly, distinctly, and at a somewhat elevated volume.

As the little puke is groping for a response, I look them dead in the eye, then up and down, Laugh Out Loud and say, You aren’t worth the effort. Then just walk away. Funny as hell to look back seeing them melt down!!!

And if I really want to be immature, a bit of Crop Dusting sends a clear message too. I’m way beyond sick and tired of these pukes!!


38 posted on 07/17/2023 6:59:26 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

I use the term LUGBUTT.


39 posted on 07/17/2023 7:28:57 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Disambiguator
Two spirited = demon possessed

Maybe by two demons.

40 posted on 07/17/2023 7:34:17 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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