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I will counter that people need to respect my adjectives. I identify as Emperor of the Universe, which is far more possible than a male becoming a female, so I will consider your pronouns if you refer to me as Your Highness.
And real-time verification: "Blinken instructs staff to use “gender-neutral language whenever possible,” warning that making assumptions about a person’s gender “can be problematic” and send a “harmful, exclusionary message.”
He recommends staff avoid terms such as “manpower,” “you guys,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and gender-specific words such as “mother/father,” “son/daughter,” and “husband/wife.” He suggests they use “labor force,” “everyone,” “folks,” “you all,” and terms such as “parent,” “child,” and “spouse” or “partner.”
In a hilarious twist of fate, Blinken’s memo urges staff to “avoid using phrases like ‘brave men and women on the front lines,'” in favor of “more specific language such as ‘brave first responders,’ ‘brave soldiers,’ or ‘brave DS agents.'” DS stands for diplomatic security." SzFJ0EYJlUvPGYFXHKGJ7NDjn0z1w
As the saying goes, "Everyone has a piece of the truth." That was a very large piece of the truth there. Thank you.
To add to your efforts to answer the question "Why do they do it?" - postmodernism was truly born when enough raised-rich, liberal, spoiled intellectuals, mostly men, got frustrated by coming up against appropriate boundaries they wished to transgress.
"No", they heard. "You can't do/have that."
"No???"
"Yep. NO."
A boundary? Preventing me from getting that very enticing treat (child, gender, property, power) that I very much want?
It'll have to go.
And the rest was one massive extended narcissistic rationalization.
Civilization is what we call the collective systematic effort to model and predict the world to avoid things in which prevent us from existing. The result of that is, among other things, science, democratic governance, mathematics. Meaningful language is both the model and how we share the model with each other. When language doesn’t accurately describe reality, it causes “surprise” to which we individually or collectively respond in an effort minimize future surprise. Surprise can be expensive and deadly.
We model Kinetic Energy = 1/2 mass x velocity^2 for example, which allows us to predict a 4-ton vehicle moving at 50 miles per hour would transmit roughly 1 million joules of energy into the body of a person hit by the truck, sufficient to shatter all bones and many organs, and we can accurately predict the person would cease to exist.
We know the mushroom fly agaric - bright red cap with white spots - is toxic, and eating it will result in hallucinatory perceptions.
We use language to predict that someone walking down a road having eaten fly agaric is more likely to walk in front of the truck.
Redefining fly agaric as safe to eat while walking is inaccurate, and creates surprise we can model with language quite accurately.
Civilizations, when not isolated, are generally self-correcting. Sometimes they are self-deluding - a man can become a woman with no risk to women, we can discharge waste into the environment indefinitely with no ill effect, supernatural beings protect good people - which create various levels of surprise when they are found false.
Postmodernist manipulation of language is simply an effort to impart delusions in a transparent attempt to create sufficient “surprise” to drain resources from dominant, reality-based culture in order to bring everyone to the intellectual capacity of the lowest common denominator in a culture.
“It is interesting for me, as a non-white/non-western person, to read you say: “the white race, men and women, almost every norm all humanity has ever known is oppressive and must be dismantled to save the oppressed” because the reality is that wokeism simply will not work outside of western societies. If they tried this nonsense in say Asia, the Middle East or even Africa or Russia or parts of Eastern Europe - they might soon be viewing their world behind bars.” It is not just that the authorities will not accept it, the people won't.
I live in the city but very occasionally take a train into the rural area. Recently I marvelled at how clean our trains were because food/drink are not allowed, otherwise you pay a penalty. But having read about US subways or major city streets (like in SF or LA), I also marvelled that we'd never see a druggie or homeless person on the train because no one - neither the public nor the authorities - would accept that. Same with crime. I should add that people on our trains always give up seats for older folks and pregnant women or parents with little kids. So, wokesters would not get away with labelling us uncompassionate which is their usual manipulative ploy.
Totally agree. The woke worldview is an American elitist one. It's ironic they claim to be diverse and inclusive when they're mostly wealthy white liberals who are out of touch with the vast majority of humanity. They get very angry when you say this!
The liberals you’re talking about aren’t white. That’s not who controls “wokeism” (lol, what is that) and you’re guilty of doing exactly what he’s pointing out.
Your post is spot on. I saw a video where Al Sharpton, Ben Crump and their crew were playing pool (all fake) and Crump said we need to change the definition of what a crime is. Apparently "they" created the word (crime) to fit only inappropriate acts that blacks commit. So as they played pool and obviously were drunk, or high they discussed ways to reimagine what a crime really is. In their world of hustling race, they can only make money by making something out of nothing or changing the understanding or definition of what crime is. I'm still trying to figure out who "they" are...
Language/ words are not responsible for intellect or instinct. “….language serves two contradictory purposes: To facilitate thought and to prevent it.” from Ch 3, How To Lie With Learned Words, from _The Ostrich Factor - Garrett Hardin
Thanks, this is an excellent article. I write about similar things. We need to be expanding the language with words that convey concepts that are missing from our conversations. For example, I coined the term coincidism to describe when people blame things like the commonplace adverse reactions to vaccines on coincidence. My newest word is "drariged", which is when a person is stuck using or taking a medical product they don't want, whether they are taking meds that make them feel nasty but their disability checks would be cut off if they were supposedly healthy enough to not take the meds or when people are duped, lured or bullied into taking worthless experimental injections. We have to make a concerted effort to expand the English language to to make sure that the words we are using have the meaning we want them to have.
I just discovered you on X and I had to come here. You describe what’s happening in such an eloquent manner and it’s so easy to understand too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will buy your book as well. I feel like we need to get very savvy, very fast. The regressive left wing is bullying us into submission. I am Romanian , but I live in Italy, it is not as bad here as of right now ( except for the illegal immigration, of course) . But I am married to an amazing man, he is American. And we have this amazing granddaughter, 4 yo, and she is the reason I will fight against this insanity. Children deserve a future. I was 5 at the revolution in Romania and lots of people gave their lives so we can have freedom. The United States still has freedom, it would be such a shame to lose it all. I love my country and I love America. God bless you all!
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
Yes!
It's why I refuse to use pronouns for people. I won't give in and I will not lie.
I will counter that people need to respect my adjectives. I identify as Emperor of the Universe, which is far more possible than a male becoming a female, so I will consider your pronouns if you refer to me as Your Highness.
Okay your highness 😂😂.
(whispers) But is it his, her or their highness?
😂
My pronouns are UP YOURS.
We should all refuse! The pronouns are just the start !
And real-time verification: "Blinken instructs staff to use “gender-neutral language whenever possible,” warning that making assumptions about a person’s gender “can be problematic” and send a “harmful, exclusionary message.”
He recommends staff avoid terms such as “manpower,” “you guys,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and gender-specific words such as “mother/father,” “son/daughter,” and “husband/wife.” He suggests they use “labor force,” “everyone,” “folks,” “you all,” and terms such as “parent,” “child,” and “spouse” or “partner.”
In a hilarious twist of fate, Blinken’s memo urges staff to “avoid using phrases like ‘brave men and women on the front lines,'” in favor of “more specific language such as ‘brave first responders,’ ‘brave soldiers,’ or ‘brave DS agents.'” DS stands for diplomatic security." SzFJ0EYJlUvPGYFXHKGJ7NDjn0z1w
Blinken is and the entire Biden administration are evil at their core.
And what do Winken and Nod say?
As the saying goes, "Everyone has a piece of the truth." That was a very large piece of the truth there. Thank you.
To add to your efforts to answer the question "Why do they do it?" - postmodernism was truly born when enough raised-rich, liberal, spoiled intellectuals, mostly men, got frustrated by coming up against appropriate boundaries they wished to transgress.
"No", they heard. "You can't do/have that."
"No???"
"Yep. NO."
A boundary? Preventing me from getting that very enticing treat (child, gender, property, power) that I very much want?
It'll have to go.
And the rest was one massive extended narcissistic rationalization.
Civilization is what we call the collective systematic effort to model and predict the world to avoid things in which prevent us from existing. The result of that is, among other things, science, democratic governance, mathematics. Meaningful language is both the model and how we share the model with each other. When language doesn’t accurately describe reality, it causes “surprise” to which we individually or collectively respond in an effort minimize future surprise. Surprise can be expensive and deadly.
We model Kinetic Energy = 1/2 mass x velocity^2 for example, which allows us to predict a 4-ton vehicle moving at 50 miles per hour would transmit roughly 1 million joules of energy into the body of a person hit by the truck, sufficient to shatter all bones and many organs, and we can accurately predict the person would cease to exist.
We know the mushroom fly agaric - bright red cap with white spots - is toxic, and eating it will result in hallucinatory perceptions.
We use language to predict that someone walking down a road having eaten fly agaric is more likely to walk in front of the truck.
Redefining fly agaric as safe to eat while walking is inaccurate, and creates surprise we can model with language quite accurately.
Civilizations, when not isolated, are generally self-correcting. Sometimes they are self-deluding - a man can become a woman with no risk to women, we can discharge waste into the environment indefinitely with no ill effect, supernatural beings protect good people - which create various levels of surprise when they are found false.
Postmodernist manipulation of language is simply an effort to impart delusions in a transparent attempt to create sufficient “surprise” to drain resources from dominant, reality-based culture in order to bring everyone to the intellectual capacity of the lowest common denominator in a culture.
Sorry for the complexity.
“It is interesting for me, as a non-white/non-western person, to read you say: “the white race, men and women, almost every norm all humanity has ever known is oppressive and must be dismantled to save the oppressed” because the reality is that wokeism simply will not work outside of western societies. If they tried this nonsense in say Asia, the Middle East or even Africa or Russia or parts of Eastern Europe - they might soon be viewing their world behind bars.” It is not just that the authorities will not accept it, the people won't.
I live in the city but very occasionally take a train into the rural area. Recently I marvelled at how clean our trains were because food/drink are not allowed, otherwise you pay a penalty. But having read about US subways or major city streets (like in SF or LA), I also marvelled that we'd never see a druggie or homeless person on the train because no one - neither the public nor the authorities - would accept that. Same with crime. I should add that people on our trains always give up seats for older folks and pregnant women or parents with little kids. So, wokesters would not get away with labelling us uncompassionate which is their usual manipulative ploy.
Totally agree. The woke worldview is an American elitist one. It's ironic they claim to be diverse and inclusive when they're mostly wealthy white liberals who are out of touch with the vast majority of humanity. They get very angry when you say this!
The liberals you’re talking about aren’t white. That’s not who controls “wokeism” (lol, what is that) and you’re guilty of doing exactly what he’s pointing out.
This is pathetic.
Your post is spot on. I saw a video where Al Sharpton, Ben Crump and their crew were playing pool (all fake) and Crump said we need to change the definition of what a crime is. Apparently "they" created the word (crime) to fit only inappropriate acts that blacks commit. So as they played pool and obviously were drunk, or high they discussed ways to reimagine what a crime really is. In their world of hustling race, they can only make money by making something out of nothing or changing the understanding or definition of what crime is. I'm still trying to figure out who "they" are...
https://twitter.com/ZeekArkham/status/1757174891655090649
I saw that and that is exactly what the left believes.
Language/ words are not responsible for intellect or instinct. “….language serves two contradictory purposes: To facilitate thought and to prevent it.” from Ch 3, How To Lie With Learned Words, from _The Ostrich Factor - Garrett Hardin
Thanks, this is an excellent article. I write about similar things. We need to be expanding the language with words that convey concepts that are missing from our conversations. For example, I coined the term coincidism to describe when people blame things like the commonplace adverse reactions to vaccines on coincidence. My newest word is "drariged", which is when a person is stuck using or taking a medical product they don't want, whether they are taking meds that make them feel nasty but their disability checks would be cut off if they were supposedly healthy enough to not take the meds or when people are duped, lured or bullied into taking worthless experimental injections. We have to make a concerted effort to expand the English language to to make sure that the words we are using have the meaning we want them to have.
My daughter when she was 3or4 used to say”That’s an obviosity” we should use that to emphasize the fact of the binary of sex.
I just discovered you on X and I had to come here. You describe what’s happening in such an eloquent manner and it’s so easy to understand too. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I will buy your book as well. I feel like we need to get very savvy, very fast. The regressive left wing is bullying us into submission. I am Romanian , but I live in Italy, it is not as bad here as of right now ( except for the illegal immigration, of course) . But I am married to an amazing man, he is American. And we have this amazing granddaughter, 4 yo, and she is the reason I will fight against this insanity. Children deserve a future. I was 5 at the revolution in Romania and lots of people gave their lives so we can have freedom. The United States still has freedom, it would be such a shame to lose it all. I love my country and I love America. God bless you all!