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Re: Leftists against progressivism
« Reply #15 on: June 26, 2021, 12:29:57 am »
False Leftists are confused about vocabulary:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/university-warns-against-using-oppressive-171700004.html

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A Massachusetts university compiled a growing list of words and phrases it considers “oppressive” and discouraged people from using them.

The phrase “killing it,” for example, is language Brandeis University wants people to stop using.

"If someone is doing well, we don’t need to equate that to murder," Brandeis’s Prevention, Advocacy, and Resource Center wrote in a new "oppressive language list."

The list is divided into five categories: violent language, identity-based language, language that doesn’t say what we mean, culturally appropriative language, and person-first alternatives.

“Take a shot/stab at,” “trigger warning,” and “go off the reservation” are all on the “violent language” list because they “needlessly use imagery of hurting someone or something.”

Many people (e.g. rightists) deserve to be hurt. To discourage such imagery is to promote the notion that no one deserves to be hurt, which is going to ensure we lose when the fighting begins.

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People should also stop using “rule of thumb,” another phrase on the list, as the “expression allegedly comes from an old British law allowing men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.”

OK, this one I agree with. Nice information about Western civilization too!

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The “identity-based language” list includes terms that are masculine-dominant, such as “you guys,” “policeman,” “congressman,” and "freshman.”

"You guys" is not masculine:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/guy#etymonline_v_14401

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"fellow," 1847, American English; earlier, in British English (1836) "grotesquely or poorly dressed person," originally (1806) "effigy of Guy Fawkes," leader of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5, 1605). The effigies were paraded through the streets by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy.

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“Ladies and gentlemen,” a phrase often used to address a crowd of mixed genders, should also not be used, as it is “within the gender binary, which doesn’t include everyone.”

I agree (in fact I was proposing this one long before mainstream academia was).

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The term “African American” should also stop being used. “Black” is listed as a “possible alternative” as “not all Black people are from Africa and/or America.”

I agree. As I keep saying, this is the only correct definition of Africa:



But "black" should eventually be phased out too, as it too is a Western concept.

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Even a more generic term such as “people of color” is considered “oppressive,” as the center said: “If you are talking about a specific racial group, name the group you are talking about.”

WRONG. These so-called "specific racial groups" are Western concepts, which is what we need to get rid of. Thus using "POC"* is better than using these group names, as it emphasizes our outgroup status only and not the Western concepts designed to divide the outgroup. On this account, the more direct "non-white" is even better than "POC".

(* Jews are not POC.)

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Similarly, “transsexual” is a word people “outside of that group should not use.” Instead, the school recommends people simply refer to them as “trans and gender non-conforming folk.”

Far too complicated. People who have had limb-lengthening surgery are not called "height non-conforming folk". Why have special terminology for gender only? (Answer: because Westerners are obsessed with sexual dimorphism.)

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The university also encourages people to stop using words such as “crazy," "insane," "wild," "lame," or "walk-in,” as in a walk-in appointment, because they are “ableist.”

Wrong again. The important thing is whom we call "crazy". Here is an example of the correct way to use the term "crazy" (also note the correct use of the term "you guys", because anyone dressed in Western dress code is grotesquely dressed):



See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/

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The word "picnic" also made the list because it is "often associated with lynchings of Black people in the United States, during which White spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against Black people."

So do you want people to remember how evil "whites" are, or do you want them to forget? I want them to remember and hence buy:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
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