I think it's particularly insulting that at a time where even a top tier PhD student in abstract mathematics or philosophy has no way of ever getting a university postion, universities still pay people full time to peddle PC garbage. Liberals often pretend to be intellectuals, but cases like this clearly show that this is just posturing. Otherwise they'd be just as mad that universities are wasting their resources like that.
Before we thrown too many stones at the language-changers, let us recall "Freedom Fries", an attempt to punish the French for declining to join us in our happy attempt to bring liberal democracy to Iraq. But that was an aberration. I'm entirely on the side of people who are alarmed/amused by this 1984 attempt to criminalize language. It's a shame to see genuine liberals caving in to the maniacs. It's not just what is happening now, but the direction of motion. To come: fines and loss of employment for people who use politically-incorrect terms. Here's another prediction: the requirement to study English in school will, at some point in the future, be challenged, and successfully challenged, by leftists, probably in California, the same state where they are now painting over a mural in a school because it features politically-incorrect scenes from America's past. (And the wonderful irony is, it was painted by a communist.) It was a great liberal historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, who made the best case against the cultural termites, in his The Disuniting of America. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if I were ... I would say that with the big economic problems America (the country north of Mexico and south of Canada I mean, in case anyone is confused) is facing, and with its dangerous Cold-War-II foreign policy ... in light of the obvious willingness of the Republican base to embrace a man who appeared ['appeared' is the operative word here] to challenge Republican orthodoxy on these issues ... whose interests are being served by all the current gratuitous Politically Correct craziness, which will drive ordinary working class Americans away from considering things like a national minimum wage increase, a Marshall Plan for our own country, a re-think of our posture as policeman of the world?
Bah! It is short for "citizen of the United States." Three syllables instead of nine. It reminds me of the stupidity of abandoning 'black," a single syllable descriptive word for "African American," a seven syllable term that describes nothing. I know a man whose parents immigrated from South Africa. He is white yet he is an African American by that standard. By the way I was raised in Cuba and Spanish is my native language. Whenever we used the term "Americano" we were referring to an American from the U.S. Other nationalities were called Venezolano or Colombiano or Chileno or Argentino or something else rather than Americano.[/QUOTE]
This is your nation on liberalism. What's funny is that most leftists HOWLED at one point or the other during their life time that THIS would never happen due to liberalism and that the Right was simply filled with paranoid alarmists. Well leftists . . . here we are just as the Right coolly and logically predicted would happen as a result of your ideology. Enjoy.
Why doesn't it bother leftists as their encroaching ideology fundamentally changes this nation . . . and always for the worse? You'd think that even progressives would eventually be able to read the writing on that wall. But alas . . . no.
Because this mental illness of those in Berkley's authority should be treated as opposed to being forced onto Americans.
That little lump there, under your skin? The one that's grown a bit over the last month? Nothing to worry about ... it's small.
But using government guns to FORCE citizens to use certain words and not use other words IS. It is authoritarian, Orwellian and perhaps the lowest level of depraved evil. The Stalinists who instituted these rules should be stripped of their positions and depersoned for their attack on the most basic of our human rights. It is downright shocking to see them taking a hatchet to the Constitution while the MSM cheers them on. Apparently human rights die not in darkness but with fireworks, fanfare and cheerleading.
ROFLMAO!!!! So we "LET" all of the brown countries adopt the name of the European that opened up their countries to colonizers. Kind of like the slave taking on the name of the slave master. Could you explain the logic of why they would want that? In reality, the core of this is to make North America/South America into one country. Just another globalist scheme. More open borders madness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Ironically, when you ask a Peruvian where they are from, they don't say "South America". They say "I'm from Peru." We are the only nation that has America in their name and everyone in the known world calls people from the United States "American". But the narrative is well established that liberals are working REALLY hard to destroy everything that was once America and made this nation great. Making the word "American" a dirty word is merely a stepping stone to their end game..
I'm offended by the name John Smith. It reminds me of that movie Pocahontas, and just brings up bad memories of evil white people. So I demand everyone named John or everyone with a last name of Smith needs to change it. If you dont, you're a racist and a bigot. In fact, forget names. Everyone everyone needs a number. That will eliminate all feelings associated with names. See where this is going? I know someone who died in a fire. I'm also going to need you to change your PF handle, and you know, if you dont, you're an *******... and a bigot.
So, we won't call it 'America' any more, because 'America' means North and South America, and our monopolizing the name might offend someone south of the border. Okay then, it's "The United States", or Los Estados Unidos, in Spanish. But wait!!!!! Isn't our southern neighbor actually Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos -- more people to be offended, by calling ourselves THE United States. I've tried to think of an appropriate politically-correct name, and some funny ones have come to mind ... but I am afraid to put them down, because what is just comic exaggeration today -- "Oh come on, they'd NEVER do THAT..." -- seems to become frowning PC reality tomorrow.
Because at the time men were the ones passing through the hole. Is it truly that different now? Changing language to control thought. A very dangerous Orwellian game.
Can you cite the racist tweet that has offended you? I would love to see which race he's demeaning. No need for a deflection- just cite the "racist" tweet(s) so we can see how he's claiming his race is superior.
Telling minorities to go back where they came from certainly isn't racist. I haven't been hearing that all my life. Derp I said in an earlier thread there are three despicable episodes Trump has had to walk back (that would have resulted in immediate disqualification of any other candidate/president, no matter what political party): Access Hollywood, Charlottesville, and the "send her back" rally. And it wasn't just Democrats calling him out. Republicans went to Pence and told him the **** has to stop.
The "Im offended" thermostat keeps getting adjusted. What did the apple tree say to the pair tree? Grow a pair!
What is it when a Miss World contestant gets stripped of her title because she refused to wear a hijab? Note this is a Chinese American that they are attacking. Watch the liberals not stand up for this oppressed minority. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...uty-crown-over-insensitive-tweets/1776855001/
You are doing the crying. Sorry if it hurts your little feelings. If you don't like it you can go back to where you came from.