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Ever since the Democrats began veering a hard left – so hard, in fact, that even former Attorney General Eric Holder had to tell the Wokies to bugger off as they tried to transform Barack Obama into some kind of moderate Republican – they’ve been diligently working to skew our understanding of the English language and take a large, steaming dump on our vocabulary.
Let’s not even address the fact that the word “Republican” is now a slur in the liberal lexicon, and that anything that Trump lets fly from his Twitter fingers is automatically racist, whether he’s telling the truth or not.
The left has warped and twisted our vocabulary so that anything their political opposition says is automatically unacceptable and wrong.
According to the communist rag Salon, telling someone to “go back” is now racist.
A white person can no longer just be successful as a result of his or her hard work. Their achievement is necessarily harmful to minorities, is the consequence of privilege, and can hardly be called achievement.
The word “infest” is also racist, according to the screeching liberal ass goblins.
“This talk of infestation is telling, because he only seems to apply it to issues concerning black and brown people,” wrote Charles M. Blow in the New York Times.
Please remember that the words “man” and “woman” no longer mean… well… “man” and “woman.” Men can now menstruate, according to the social justice vermin, and dammit, the box that contains tampons is too girly for said “men!” How long before our society forgets the difference between male and female genitalia and some ignorant kid winds up in the hospital because he stuck a tampon too far up his bum and couldn’t get it out?
Are period products too gendered? https://t.co/SWzqQXOJj9
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) July 27, 2019
Mashable has a whole list of words you should purge from your vocabulary if you want to be a better ally. Ally to whom? Apparently every simpering, drooling, mundane sub-moron who flaunts xer/zer inadequacies in your face, demanding validation and beatification of their flaws.
You can no longer use “lame,” because it’s offensive to people with reduced mobility, or gimps in the vernacular.
Don’t you dare use “colored” to refer to “people of color!”
As much as I use the word “derp,” the squawking social justice derp potatoes would have me flogged and imprisoned by now. Apparently, people with intellectual disabilities have already appropriated this term as something that offends them.
If you are cis, using the word “tranny” is highly offensive to the trannies… I mean transgendered people. Apparently, there’s a history of violence and oppression inflicted on transgender bodies behind this word – not the actual violence against human beings, but the vocabulary term – that we need to recognize, and respect those who continue to overcome it.
Now, there is no doubt that there was a time when transgender individuals were threatened, beaten, and otherwise abused. Hell, it happens now, and it’s appalling that anyone should be targeted because they don’t look or act the way some think they should.
That said, the claim that a word that is a shortened word for “transgender” is somehow offensive, is absolutely ridiculous.
Then there’s “illegal.” The term to describe acts that are unlawful is now unacceptable because the derp monkeys think everyone should be allowed to just cross our border and partake in the riches earned by others! Of course, it’s illegal to cross our border without permission, and therefore the term is accurate, but since when do these turnips care about accuracy and facts?
Screw your vocabulary! We need something to be offended about.
You certainly cannot use the word “exotic” anymore if you want to be a good little ally.
If your new coworker has a name you’ve never heard of before, hold your tongue before telling him or her it’s “exotic.” Using this word ends up exoticizing whomever you’re referring to, usually with nasty racial underpinnings. It’s a major verbal microaggression we need to undo.
“Exotic” is a term that others. It’s also a term usually reserved for animals and plants. So, let’s not even go there.
DAFUQ?
Ghetto? Nope, it means that there are shithole areas in this country where no one would want to reside, and the meaning of that word has transformed into a place that has black people, and therefore, is racist and classist, because black people are economically disadvantaged because of white privilege… or something.
Oh, and you can’t use “shithole” to describe a nasty, unpleasant, filthy place, because that’s racist. I’m screwed.
Fat? NEVER! You’re not fat. You simply conform to alternative beauty standards! Because dog forbid someone reminds your slack, lazy ass that sitting around in your mom’s basement and waging war on white, cis, male, hetero racists from the safety and comfort of your keyboard with Cheeto-stained fingers will not make you any healthier or more attractive.
You may no longer use the phrase “peanut gallery,” according to BestLife, because it refers to a section in Vaudeville-era theaters with the worst seats in the house, where people of color (black folks, in case you were wondering) were forced to sit.
You are also no longer allowed to call Jeffrey Dahmer a “cannibal,” because the term derives from the tribe Canibales in the West Indies where the members would eat one another. These tribe members were likely people of color, and even though they ate each other, we cannot criticize them, because that would be insensitive to a minority culture. Now, if there was an island of Hannibal Lecters somewhere, feasting on one another’s organs with some fava beans and a nice Chianti, that would be another story. Hannibal was white, you see, and white people eating one another is repulsive.
Eeny Meeny Miney Moe is an unacceptable rhyme, according to the leftist buffoons (can I even use that term any more, or is it offensive to clowns?), because it at one time – before any of us were born – contained a word we now consider to be a racial slur. In that same vein, the word “boy” doesn’t describe a male child, but rather a black man, because that’s how it was used during the dark times of slavery and Jim Crow.
Look, language evolves, and our vocabulary changes with time. But the liberals aren’t allowing language to evolve naturally, but rather using it as a bludgeon to destroy their adversaries – burning books word by word and phrase by phrase until nothing is left but their petty diktats. And when they’ve destroyed all their opposition, they will turn on each other like… dare I say… cannibals!
Crybullies ruin everything. Everything is offensive, and anything that chafes their tender, lavender-scented labia must be destroyed.
Featured photo: Book burning; Burn Ed Burn; licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
people with intellectual disabilities have already appropriated this term
And caring what mentally deficient people have to say (aside from, say, counting toothpicks or cards) is how we got into this farking mess.
there was a time when transgender individuals were threatened, beaten, and otherwise abused
Well, when you insist that your significant abnormality is normal, expect normal people to be … challenged by that. And challenged people who have no other recourse, often directly attack the source of their challenge. But these mentally deficient folk think they can change human nature. Oy.
Then there’s “illegal.”
And their attempts to mangle that are especially offensive since it’s actually a TWO-word phrase: “illegal alien“. The “alien” part means they are foreign to this people/community and don’t belong, and the “illegal” part means they broke the rules barging in. “Illegal” modifies “alien” to denote what sort of “alien” they are. It’s not just definitions, but clear grammar they’re after.
ends up exoticizing whomever
#MeToo? Oh, wait, that’s an ‘x’………..
where people of color … were forced to sit.
SOMETIMES. It wasn’t all POCs in those cheap seats, though. Which means the progs are othering ME by ignoring the oppression and suffering of MY people! We should get outraged about that! Or something.
is it offensive to clowns?
Yes. But everyone hates clowns, so you’re ok, for now.
because that’s how it was used
That’s ONE WAY it was used. FFS.
BTW, I learned Ennie Meenie Miney Moe with a tiger. I didn’t hear the other word in it until I was at least 8 or 9. (You don’t want to know what filbert nuts were called, btw.)
But the liberals aren’t allowing language to evolve naturally
It’s not just that. It’s also that in the process they are destroying language itself. When you destroy the meanings of words (and clear grammar!) in the fashion in which they’re progressing, you destroy the ability of language to communicate ideas clearly.
I really hate these people. They’re like children playing with matches molotov cocktails in a tinder dry forest. And all their families live high in the trees.
It was Brazil nuts, but yeah…
The war on “Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe” goes back at least as far as 2003:
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/southwest-airlines-cleared-race-discrimination-lawsuit
The extent to which contemporary politics is grounded in feelings and taking offense is truly astounding, and is unfortunately the result of the growing influence of feminists in politics, business, the clergy, and academia promoting an infantile notion that life must be all bliss all the time and that no one’s pwecious widdle feewings EVER be hurt.
This results is the diversion of scarce resources to fight idiotic lawsuits like the one referenced above, not to mention an unending stream of bilge about marginalization, inclusion, toxic whatever, etc. etc. etc.
I. Will. Not. Submit.
I love how the quote about using the word “exotic” explains how it might be “exoticizing” someone.
And you wonder why aliens never visit… Or rather, they were startled by how we, in the blink of a galactic eye, had developed space travel (even if just to a moon) and decided that, coupled to our warlike nature, we must be made harmless. So they released a mind-killing virus known to us as postmodernism. Unfortunately, it was too successful and contagious, and now they’ve placed the whole solar system in quarantine lest we infect the rest of the galaxy with our insanity…
This is merely a continuation and intensification of a tactic long in development. While it can be countered, it requires a degree of defiance that Americans, unfortunately too conditioned not to “give offense,” have a very hard time overcoming.
We must return to giving deliberate offense to those who deserve it, most especially the lexical totalitarians of the Left — of course, while being conspicuously armed.
There are definitely a lot of queer ideas coming from the commies.
“You don’t want to know what filbert nuts were called, btw.”
If filbert nuts are the same as Brazil nuts, I know exactly what they used to be called…… and my parents were telling me not to call them that.
Yep SDN, one in the same.. I remember hearing them called that by my grandparents generation (born in the 1910’s…)
If you read Victor Klemperer’s “The Language of the Third Reich” you will see a real-world example of how control of language is used to influence and obtain control of people. Today’s radical leftists and their fellow travelers in 95% of the mainstream media have done great damage to our culture by redefining and misusing American English to influence the benighted and easily fooled/led. A slow-motion tragedy in progress.
This piece is startling because it tells the truth. The truth startles people who would rather avoid it or obscure it.
That’s what this is all about: an ongoing attempt to distort and suppress the truth. All such attempts have at their root some sort of perceived self-interest on the part of the one doing the suppressing.
Often in no more complicated than the age-old human impulse to make one’s self feel superior.
Aaand now I see the funny juxtaposition of sentence one and sentence two. Let’s just say most of us, self included, are not accustomed to seeing frankness.
Part of the solution: do not play along. It’s what is in a person’s heart that matters, not whether or not he or she conforms to the latest in ever-shifting PC speech. Be nice & friendly to a “gender”-confused person, for example, but don’t self-censor or speak gibberish. Give others the respect we should, and at the same time speak plainly.
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