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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
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Well of course it is (hat tip to Bird Dog at Maggie’s Farm).
A new word-discouragement campaign at Duke University has labeled phrases such as “Man Up,” “That’s So Gay,” and “Don’t Be a Pussy” offensive language that “delegitimizes” homosexuality and oppresses and insults people.
But as the campaign has gained national popularity, its detractors have bristled at the effort, calling it a politically correct war on words that will stifle free speech and suggesting its true aim is to redefine terms to control public opinion and – ultimately – public policy.
In fact, the “You Don’t Say” campaign creators have admitted as much.
“Language is a reflection of how we think about others and view the world,” Jay Sullivan, a student leader of the campaign, tells Duke Today. “My goal is to…help facilitate discussion about how language affects many social issues, from race to gender and sexuality.”
I don’t understand why the PC-police keep saying things like “the goal is to facilitate discussion” or “foster dialogue.” I doubly-don’t-understand how they get away with it. Their goal is the opposite of that. Their goal is to intimidate and muzzle and silence people.
The democrats are sending me e-mails, asking for $3 donations, bragging about 26-year-olds putting themselves on their parents’ insurance. At Christmastime, their recommendation for these 26-year-olds is to put on footsie-pajamas, drink hot chocolate and talk about insurance. Now, if you tell someone to man up and stop being a pussy, you’re committing word-crimes — supposedly, it’s about the offensive words, not about the pattern of what’s being encouraged vs. discouraged.
Does anyone really think so?
Why do we continue to pretend such campaigns are all about one thing, when we know they’re really all about something else?
A little honesty would be refreshing. If you wanna say something, don’t get lost in the weeds tut-tutting and gagging other people who are saying something different. Say what you mean: “Man down. Be a pussy.” Too much to ask, I suppose.
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I think that’s my biggest current problem with the Proggies. If “the facts have a liberal bias,” then why don’t you actually, you know, deploy some? Why must you begin every utterance with a lie, and just keep lying from there?
It’s not that the “ideas,” such as they are, are dumb and discredited — though they’re certainly that. It’s the endless, brain-numbing parade of lies.
- Severian | 04/29/2014 @ 12:01I think the issue is that the left wants to control the vocabulary.
You can’t argue with them if they control the definitions of the words.
It is time to stand up to the Heterophobes and demand to viewed as humans
- Fai.Mao | 04/29/2014 @ 15:40