Posted on 06/17/2016 8:00:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Last year, the University of Northern Colorado hung 680 #languagematters posters around campus, warning students against words and phrases deemed offensive. “Words are connected to a long and often forgotten history of oppression and people,” one poster said. “Language matters because, whether it is intentional or not, the impact of words can reinforce oppression and feelings of discomfort, fear and shame,” another said.
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#1A_Matters
Now there is a college tee shirt.
Because without the Second amendment none of the others are enforceable.
these idiots are enemies
they must not prevail
In other words, you’re guilty and denying it won’t do any good.
Hard to believe but the modern era of campus activism in this country started with the Berkeley free speech movement.
The hard core Marxists knew back 200 years ago that if you control the Words and Language-—you can actually control the desires/attitudes (worldview) of the masses.
They took control of Words in America in 1913 (Europe in 1800s to “kill God—Christianity) and the skools in America by 1930 (Communist.Humanist John Dewey)——to flip 2000 years of Ethics to satanism—where Vice is Virtue and Slavery is Freedom. Give them your children and they OWN them for the rest of their lives (remove them from Reality/Truth in artificial indoctrination systems of dependency).
We have become a Socialist nation-—decades ago-—with mandatory “education” of our children....mass indoctrination system.
“Language matters because, whether it is intentional or not, the impact of words can reinforce oppression and feelings of discomfort, fear and shame,”
Their signs and language make me feel discomfort, but it’s not my feelings that they care about, is it?
Has anyone yet had the wit to propose banning the decapitation rap, “Allahu Akbar?”
These idiots should be ashamed of themselves for posting such vile signs...
LOL, I’ve had this tagline since November 2008.
Saphir-Woorf (or some variation of this name) theory says that language shapes thoughts. If you ban terms that are racist, you in theory make racism hard to define and thus feel.
However, implementing it ignores several things:
* colloquial speech that can be used to get around banned terms
* adapting new phrases to mean what was banned
* banning words can give them more power, greater attraction, lead to more use underground and deliberate as an act of rebellion
* monitoring and criticizing word choice of people constantly can make neutral people hate you, the opposite of the intended purpose of the whole effort
Mindless cant has a sort of lilt to it, a taste, even a vintage. I remember giggling when certain over-earnest collegians were solemnly invoking "running-dog imperialist oppressors of the working class" not all that long ago.
Attempts to control thought by controlling language are, in my opinion, thoroughly overrated, because control of the language is never as complete as the controllers congratulate themselves. That is an ideological fantasy, and as evidence I cite the remarkable evidence of samizdat in the late, unlamented Soviet Union. That sort of language control always devolves into sloganeering - see above - and that always fails eventually, more often quickly, from the pure folly of avoiding reality. "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality," as Ayn Rand put it.
They should look in the mirror.
Similarly, no one should use the term, "wrong-way driver", as it suggests that some people are "wrong-way"; and that would be bad.
We should start a list of similar slurs to demonstrate the wisdom of this approach.
Islam triggers me, just the word islam does the trick
These children have been mind raped by their liberal masters. This should be considered a criminal act. At the very least they should sue the university for educational malpractice.
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