Posted on 08/22/2019 12:00:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I have to tell you, it is so frustrating sometimes to watch TV. It just is. I’m sure you know. I just decided to turn on the audio on the TV during the commercial break, and a bunch of people are discussing this. It was frustrating to listen to the discussion. Even though their instincts were right, the rationale… Here’s the story: “San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has rebranded the term ‘convicted felon.'” You cannot talk about convicted felons as “convicted felons” in San Francisco. They are “justice-involved people.” And other criminal behavior, the language to describe it is to be “sanitized.”
“Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as ‘offender’ and ‘addict’ while changing ‘convicted felon’ to ‘justice-involved person.’ The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one of the highest crime rates in the country,” and that’s course why they’re doing it! They’ve lost control us of civility in San Francisco! They’ve lost control of civilization. It’s a crime-ridden, infested swamp, with piles of human feces on public sidewalks, homeless, tent cities everywhere! So the way to fix it is don’t accurately describe it.
To listen to people discuss this and to be right about it but not get the reasons why is kind of frustrating.
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Let me go back to this business in San Francisco. Look, I don’t want to appear to be — what’s the word – mean spirited to the people I heard talking. I’m not gonna name any names. I’m even gonna name the show. Clearly this is outrageous. And one of the people on the show said, “You know what? It’s even happening in our schools. My kids go to school and you can’t call a woman, a little girl, she or her. You have to be careful not to identify a correct gender preference. It’s just silly.”
It’s not silly. It’s destructive! We are losing the language. Words mean things. We are having language structured so that perverted criminal leftists are not described as such, pure and simple. We’re having the language changed on us so that we cannot properly identify those who are of the criminal element and those who are trying to subvert the American culture with whatever perversion or oddity they are attempting to normalize.
And the solution to it, I heard somebody, “We need to focus on the policies.” You don’t have to focus on the policy! The policy is what we are being overrun with! “But, Rush, it’s San Francisco and they can do whatever they want with their words.” Okay, fine. If you want to look at it. You’re just gonna acquiesce to all of this. But this is exactly my point. There needs to be pushback.
Now, Trump is not pushing back against this, but Trump is pushing back against everything like this. This is why these people on the left are so mad and so out of sorts, because nobody ever does push back against them. Nobody ever does tell them what they really mean. Nobody ever does call them absurd and crazy.
In San Francisco, in case you missed this in the last half hour, the San Francisco board of supervisors adopted changes to language. You cannot call a convicted felon a convicted felon. A convicted felon in San Francisco is now a “justice-involved person.” And other criminal behavior, the description, the actual verbiage to accurately describe other criminal behavior is also being sanitized.
Now, there’s a lot going on here, what with political correctness and all that. But the real objective here — forget the objective for a minute. What is the route? R-o-u-t-e. What’s the route here? The route descends from the offended. We have been allowing the offended, quote, unquote, the offended in our culture for longer than I’ve been doing this show to determine what everybody else can say or do. If one person is offended by something, then that something must stop, whether that one person is alone or is still part of a minority.
We have allowed the offended to basically take control of the language. We’ve allowed the offended to take control of permitted and allowed behavior. We have allowed a bunch of people devoted to political correctness who cannot deal with the truth about things, we have allowed them to change the language so that the language does not accurately describe the people we’re talking about because it’s offensive or it’s hurtful or whatever.
A convicted felon is a convicted felon. What if there’s a law that says convicted felons cannot vote? Well, the Democrats will change the law since there are a lot of convicted felons that are Democrat, but what if you don’t have to change the law? What if you can’t say convicted felon? There’s nothing in the law that says justice involved people can’t vote. “Come on Rush, that’s an exaggeration.” No, it’s not an exaggeration.
This is where this stuff goes. But the route of this is that it’s offensive. A transgender is offended being called a he or she. Well, I’m sorry. If you look at somebody that looks like a woman, you call her her, you call her she. But she identifies as a man. How do I know this? It’s not offensive! And I’m not trying to be offensive. I see a woman, there’s a woman. It’s a he or a she. It’s a she. It’s a her.
But, no, no, no, no, now it’s them, they, what have you, because they don’t want to be offended. And all of this has been going on, this kind of language corruption and behavioral corruption and alteration has been going on for far, far too long. And there are a lot of people willing to talk about how wrong and how odd it is, but nobody’s willing to push back. Nobody’s willing to tell a board of supervisors in San Francisco to go pound sand.
I’m gonna keep calling ’em convicted felons. What are you gonna do to me if I don’t? Well, probably not something good. And this ends up normalizing things that are not normal. It ends up masking and clouding behavior that common decency has already decided is wrong. Not allowed to know it now. Not allowed to call it out. Not allowed to be properly informed about it because you can’t accurately describe it. Why?
“Because it’s offensive, Mr. Limbaugh. It offends convicted felons to be called convicted felons.” Well, then don’t do a felony is the way it used to be. If you don’t like being a felon, don’t be one. If you don’t like being convicted as a felon, then don’t be a felon that gets convicted. That used to be the way it works.
Now you’re allowed to go do anything that’s in violation of law or societal norms or morality. And the way you get away with it is you simply can’t be described as having done any of that or whatever it is. So this kind of stuff just irritates me. You listen to people talk about it and just add other examples to it, and then, you know, rub our hands together, “Oh, my, it’s horrible where we’re headed. Really horrible. We need to focus on the policy solutions.”
Policy? We need to focus on silencing these people. We need to focus on stopping letting these leftists get away with this! But when you push back against it, they are not just gonna sit by idly and quietly. They’re gonna come after you and they’re gonna try to destroy you. They’re gonna try to boycott you. They’re gonna try to get you fired. And a lot of people just don’t have the guts to put up with any of that.
This is essentially what Donald Trump is facing every day. Donald Trump’s not embattled because of his policies. He’s embattled because he has the audacity to be a straight talker and that he won. He violates every tenet of so-called political correctness, diplomacy, approved behavior among Washington establishment members and so forth. But basically he gets the treatment he gets because he pushes back at ’em.
He basically tells ’em to go pound sand. He’s not going to be governed by their silly, childish, immature demands. He’s simply pushing back at all of the children on the left and all of the children in the media refusing to allow them to get away with defining things, including words and behavior, the way they want to, which does extend to policies and so forth.
So he is called a flip-flopper or he’s call a racist or white supremacist. Everybody in their right mind knows that Donald Trump is not anti-Semitic, that he does not hate Jewish people. Anybody in their right mind knows that Donald Trump is not a racist and doesn’t hate black people. Anybody in their right mind knows that Laurence Tribe couldn’t be more wrong when he says that what Trump’s real objective here is to reverse the outcome of the Civil War. That’s the latest thing we’re dealing with today.
Laurence Tribe, professor of law emeritus at Harvard, is out saying that what Trump really wants to do is reverse the outcome of the Civil War, which would mean what? That slavery is reinstituted. Has anybody, anybody ever made a proclamation, proposal that we reinstitute slavery? No! Nobody’s even gotten close! Nobody would! And yet that is what Donald Trump is accused of. By who?
These people need to be laughed at, ignored, or what have you. Certainly what they’re saying does not deserve to be treated with any substance or respect because it’s crazy! And so is this. “San Francisco Rebrands ‘Convicted Felon’ as ‘Justice-Involved Person.'” And you know this is just a trend. This is by no means the first.
But all of this that emanates from the offended has been a big bugaboo of mine for I don’t know how long because it’s been politicized. To say you’re offended by something is a way to shut down the words or the behavior of a political opponent. But you get away with not looking political. “That offends me, I don’t think I should have to hear that. I don’t think I should have to see that. That offends me.”
Notice that none of the perversions and the lawbreaking or any of that ever offend any of these people! The opposition to it offends people!
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you can’t undefine a word by legislative fiat. Webster ‘trumps’ the San Fransicko BoS.
“justice-involved people.”
Seems to me that would include LEO’s, prosecutors, judges, anyone in the California Department of Justice.
I remember on street cars they had a sign $ 25.00 Fine if you spit on it. No mention if you decided to take a dump.
It’s crazy isn’t it? San Francisco is spending time and money deciding to use politically correct language. And recently th y decided to ban plastic water bottles at the airport. While they spend time and effort on such matters, tons of feces pile up in the streets.
Where are their priorities?
They can ban the phrase all they want. No one gives a shi...er...Obama about any CA official documents anymore anyway.
The rest of us can use a truthful phrase: “convicted felon”.
Interestingly enough, I’d trust more convicted felons than I would trust the not yet convicted felon couple of the multiverse: Bubba and the Beast.
...getting rid of words such as ‘offender’ and ‘addict’ while changing ‘convicted felon’ to ‘justice-involved person.’
The thing the Left never seems to get about using new terms for things on the grounds that the old term has acquired a stigma, is that the stigma is associated with the thing the term describes, and the term only has the stigma by association. It’s only a (short) matter of time before the new term is just as stigmatized as the old one.
Exactly....why Justice Involved People can be shortened JIP....so it looks like a bunch of jips over there :)
So you can call them JIPs!
I left my shit in San Francisco
High on a hill it calls to me...
If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some feces in your hair.
Is poop now going to be called post-digestive waste?
Obviously the answer is for the state to step in with a law where EVERYONE in Cali must poop in plastic bottles and put the bottles in recycle bins...the state can solve 2 problems with 1 law....save water (flushes) and recycle plastic!!
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