March 12, 2014
Hey You Guys! The Bossy Wusses are Derping!
The PC crowd is at it again. The recent movement to ban the word "bossy" has gotten some attention and well deserved derision, but it is a real movement with considerable momentum and should be feared. Now, via Scott Lowther we find this....
...also "derp".
This is societal cancer. These people are lacing up a straightjacket around our language so we cannot even express thoughts they find uncongenial.
In my sophomore year of high school I was required to read 1984. Back then (1986) it was still considered a cautionary tale...not a civics lesson.
One of the important steps to being an adult comes when one can shrug off the things people say that drive home the awful realization that one is not in fact the center of the universe.
The people behind these speech codes have never grown up. The children are running the school...those who get through the schools today without running afoul of the speech codes are going to be largely children (mentally) themselves or be so whipped that they will be the sort of compliant serfs a totalitarian society requires.
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A Minnesota college has launched a campaign to warn students about the "oppressive impact†of offensive language such as "wuss†and "you guys.â€
...also "derp".
This is societal cancer. These people are lacing up a straightjacket around our language so we cannot even express thoughts they find uncongenial.
In my sophomore year of high school I was required to read 1984. Back then (1986) it was still considered a cautionary tale...not a civics lesson.
One of the important steps to being an adult comes when one can shrug off the things people say that drive home the awful realization that one is not in fact the center of the universe.
The people behind these speech codes have never grown up. The children are running the school...those who get through the schools today without running afoul of the speech codes are going to be largely children (mentally) themselves or be so whipped that they will be the sort of compliant serfs a totalitarian society requires.
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Posted by: Siergen at Wed Mar 12 19:34:23 2014 (c2+vA)
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I have this desire, the next time someone comes out saying they want to ban this word or that word, to go up to them and slap a dictionary on the desk, and say "I'm tired of this piecemeal crap. Why don't you go through this book and cross out every single word you don't think we should be able to use any more."
Posted by: Mauser at Fri Mar 14 03:03:13 2014 (TJ7ih)
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