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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I’m guessing the country of Niger will be eliminated from future maps and gloves.
Well, Rutgers has just banned proper grammar as racist. As a Latin teacher for 23 yeas, I suppose that I can only now view my entire career as racist. Thank you, Rutgers, for making me see the light. I will kneel in shame for ever supposing that what I taught, a significant part of the basis of Westrrn civilization, was important. Oh the shame! I simply can’ bear it!
I want to ban leftists from using the word gay for homosexuals. I never use that word in that context. I think everyone should use the word ghey (as in ghastly, ghoul and ghost) instead.
These white liberals are getting very uppity, I tell ya’.
Well, Rutgers has just banned proper grammar as racist. As a Latin teacher for 23 yeas, I suppose that I can only now view my entire career as racist. Thank you, Rutgers, for making me see the light. I will kneel in shame for ever supposing that what I taught, a significant part of the basis of Westrrn civilization, was important. Oh the shame! I simply can’t bear it!
The Democrats should call themselves communists. Cause they support every plank in the communist manifesto.
I will modify my language when I am around progressives in the same way I modify my language when I am around children.
Goodbye Mr. Chips was an excellent movie. I’m a TCM movie fan. Give me old movies over the new hands down.
How about insurrectionists instead?
i’ll say it clearly.
they need to be dead. exterminated.
The term “looter” will now be replaced by “uncompensated retail acquisition”.
CC
“Here’s a mug shot that I REALLY endorse! I hope they don’t take these away.”
When all is said and done our muslim overlords will have those girls circumcised clothed in burkas and concubines to some ancient, hairy, smelly muzz barbarian.
How about instead of looter, corpse.
I’m being very niggardly with my response.
When it comes to all this woke crap, in the words of Samuel L. Jackson “I don’t give a f*** about any of that s***!”
CC
I care not.
I’m through talking with them.
Gay - in the same sense as 'lame'
Lame - in the same sense as 'retarded'
Retarded - as in not a good idea
Weaponized Autism - When you get an OCD army to search thousands of videos/pics/blogs for useful information, e.g. to discover the current location of Shia LaBeouf to undermine is latest 'We will not be ...' stunt
If it wasn’t for Republicans, Kunta Kinte would be living in the 1BR, 2-holer out back.
:o)
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