Posted on 07/26/2020 7:20:10 PM PDT by TBP
[W]hat’s easy, when it comes to race, is pretending to be outraged about commonly used words.
At the Los Angeles Times, for instance, an editor has said the word “looters,” which has been used many times in the paper, now has “a pejorative and racist connotation” and that anyone who is inclined to use the word should “talk to your immediate supervisor.” Translation: Best not use the word at all, if you want to stay employed.
In Houston, a Realtors association announced it would no longer use terms such as “master bedroom” or “master bathroom” not because any sane person ever associated a nice Mediterranean-style 4BR with Kunta Kinte getting whipped in “Roots” but because some yellow-blazered property guru thought this would be a way of expressing generalized racial niceness. Is any single black person better off because of this word-juggling? No, but people are confusing gestures with actions more than ever.
Twitter, which is saturated with woke-campus paranoia, this month announced that it was blacklisting the word “blacklist,” along with other supposedly “non-inclusive” terms such as “grandfathered” (ageist, I guess), “guys” (too gendered) and “sanity check,” which is something most of us could use a little more of in our lives, but Twitter desperately needs on a daily basis, the way Uma Thurman needed that adrenaline shot in “Pulp Fiction.”
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1984...
Just as an FYI, the 1984-made 1984 is on Prime video. I saw it before I read the book and loved both. John Hurt was perfect as Smith. Burton also did a great job.
They’re being very niggardly with my verbiage.
Maybe mug shots can be called “friends and neighbors souvenir scrap book snapshots.”
They recently said police can’t use them because they sound so much like something taken of ...well....criminals who commit crimes. So un-positive./s
It’s corporate Marxism that facilitates the agenda
It’s corporate Marxism that facilitates the agenda
“Here is the Master bathroom, and Chicken George’s room is down in the celler.”
“These are the innocuous words progressives want to ban you from using”
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One word conservatives need to stop using is “progressives” instead of “extremist left wing nut cases”. Can’t figure why people let the lunatic fringe decide the terms they use.
This is a joke, right? From the Onion or Babylon bee? “Looting” is offensive? Did they ask the victims of looting what they think?
Rabid leftists care about only two things: power and control, not necessarily in that order....and they are focused to achieve that in any way possible, including the control of language and how it is used.
To hell with that. Can I still say that? I know that I can say f*** that, because that seems to be a favorite, and ubiquitous, expression among “progressives.” I still prefer “to hell with that” though, if for no other reason than just to be contrary.
Yep. It wasn’t fiction, it was prophesy.
“They’re being very niggardly with my verbiage”.
Mine, too. In fact I’m going to invent some words that sound offensive to the bastards.
Hopefully real soon the word Democrat, as referring to the party, will be banned as hate/racist speech.
“Rabid leftists care about only two things: power and control, not necessarily in that order....and they are focused to achieve that in any way possible, including the control of language and how it is used”.
Political Correctness was designed to control the narrative.
One thing is clear.
We need to F**k these “guys” up completely.
These cowardly looters, rioters,and terrorists who beat up old folks and shoot babies are vermin.
Fumigation required.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984
‘the word “looters,” which has been used many times in the paper, now has “a pejorative and racist connotation”’
It SHOULD be pejorative - stealing or destroying others’ property is wrong.
And by saying it’s “racist” THEY imply that most looters are black - so who’s the racist?
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