Posted on 03/08/2023 12:52:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sometimes in politics, which currently saturates everything, worse is better. When a political craze based on a bad idea achieves a critical mass, one wants it to be undone by ridiculous excess. Consider the movement to scrub from the English language and the rest of life everything that anyone might consider harmful or otherwise retrograde.
Worse really is better in today’s America (if you will pardon that noun; some at Stanford University will not; read on) as the fever of foolishness denoted by the word “woke” now defies satire. At Stanford, a full-service, broad-spectrum educational institution, an “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” several months ago listed words to avoid lest they make someone feel sad, unsafe, disrespected or something. Problematic words include “American,” which suggests that America (this column enjoys being transgressive) is the most important country in North and South America. The list was quickly drenched by an acid rain of derision, and Stanford distanced itself from itself: The university’s chief information officer said the list was not a mandate. The list warns against using the “culturally appropriative” word “chief” about any “non-indigenous person.”
The University of Southern California’s school of social work banned the word “field” because it connotes slavery. So, Joe DiMaggio did not roam Yankee Stadium’s center field. Heaven forfend. Perhaps centerpasture. DiMaggio was a centerpasturer? An awkward locution, but it appeases the sensitivity police. The Chicago Cubs should henceforth play in Wrigley Meadow.
Such is the New York Times’s astonishment, last week the newspaper treated as front-page news the fact that few people like the term “Latinx.” The Times describes this as “an inclusive, gender-neutral term to describe people of Latino descent.” With “Latinx,” advanced thinkers, probably including hyper-progressive non-Latino readers of the Times, have exhausted the public’s tolerance of linguistic progressivism. Progressives’ bewildering new
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Maybe Will should have considered that before his TDS took over his soul.
I don’t cotton to the idea that uppity people can change out words like that.
George will late to the party like always with tepid word salad
Maybe there’s hope, if Will still has a good article in him, and the Post will publish it...
< bleep > you George.
< bleep > you George.
Why, that’s a mighty niggardly attitude to have, Bob. You should work on that.
George Will used to be somebody back in the 1970s.
I’m just a slave to old time thinking, I guess.
I hear ya. It’s a tough row to hoe figuring out what’s ok and what isn’t.
I thought it was beyond satire when a man got fired for using the word “niggardly”, in its proper sense. But that was just the beginning.
Well this is just great 👍
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Libtards can’t figure what bathroom
To use or seize up on a Bloodie Mary
But I’m expected to feel guilty about
Being ‘Whitey’?
We are Doomed.
A black councilman here in Dallas got so worked up over a white councilman using the phrase “black hole” to describe wasted taxpayer money the black councilman organized protests and called for the white councilman to be fired
With the same reasoning I’ve heard we are not supposed to say black coffee anymore.
Are we supposed to say African-American coffee then?
I knew a young college kid years ago who thought that any use of euphemisms that involve the words ‘black’ or ‘dark’ to indicate fear, negativity, etc., was somehow racist.
I tried to explain that it’s very old, and probably goes back to man’s (!) fear of the darkness of night, during which he (!) has always been less safe; and it had nothing to do with racism.
He was a very intelligent young man; I hope he got over it.
You took the words...
George hastened demise with great vigor, and dares to complain about the results.
Conservatives accept the woke word changes. It was apparent that we had willingly given over control of the language to the Left when the switch of red and blue to designate conservatives and socialists was accepted and instituted instantly and with almost no comment and no protest.
Isn’t Will woke?
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