Posted on 12/05/2018 10:09:40 AM PST by Carriage Hill
PETA has issued new guidelines for helping people remove what it has dubbed “speciesism” and anti-animal language from daily conversations.
“Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it,” reads a tweet on the official PETA Twitter account.
An accompanying chart gives several examples of common terms that PETA has dubbed offensive to animals alongside handy replacement phrases.
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I got me some “Slow Elk” while carrying my Lucky Rabbit’s Foot! (Lucky for me, not the rabbit.)
So, PETA doesn’t get your goat?
Silly. Many of these tried and true phrases have a very specific meaning due to animal behavior, such as “get your goat”, “cat got your tongue”, “wag the dog”, “bull in a china shop”, “barrel of monkeys”, “pig in a poke” or “hog heaven”. How impoverished the English language would be if PETA got its way.
Well, I for one, will not have any trouble complying with Peta’s request. I don’t think I have ever used the word “speciesism” in my life. Well, almost never, I did use it once.
Well, I disagree. They surely won’t make announcements from pro-life organizations and pass it off as news.
Why should this organization get national news: free advertisment!
These Leftist/Lib/Progressive groups sure are trying hard to rewrite the language — what we can and cannot say.
They only win if/when they get their way and get people to change their vocabularies in favor of the new ‘preferred-speak’.
Split the Alka Seltzer tab in half and feed two seagulls at once.
It had never been in my vocabulary but I’m adding it for sure. lol
What species is “scrunt”?
There are restaurants with outside dining areas around here that have signs “DO NOT FEED THE SEAGULLS!”
If you do, they will throw you out because the Flying Rats will descend upon the diners and steal all the food right off their plates................
Their chart removes the original meanings of the various phrases and replaces them with meaningless gobbledygook.
“Feed a fed horse.” That doesn’t even make sense.
Yet, society still allows them to spawn.
Exactly. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Let sleeping dogs lie.
That even sounds dirty.
That’s like closing the bar door after the whores has already gotten out.
When the crash, they’ll crash hard. Until then, they’re doing a lot of damage in many ways.
The 6mm REM will ‘trigger’ both of them.
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