PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on July 26, 2019, 10:38:12 AM
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-were-robespierres-pronouns-11564095088
Article by Peggy Noonan.
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Paywalled. Care to summarize?
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Paywalled. Care to summarize?
I second that request.
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I second that request.
Google "What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns". It will get you past the paywall. Duck Duck Go doesn't.
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Google "What Were Robespierre’s Pronouns". It will get you past the paywall. Duck Duck Go doesn't.
It's not the search engine, it's the browser. Whether I use Google or Duck Duck Go or Startpage they all blocked it when I was using Safari, Pale Moon and Chrome, but on Firefox I have script blockers that open in a separate window. I ignore the window and move it out of the way and I can see the whole article.
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In my case, Little Joe's suggestion worked. Even though the link was highlighted in Google as having been visited and looks to be the same as the one posted, when I clicked on it, voila! no paywall, and I was able to read the article.
The first time I saw the "preferred pronouns" thing, it was in a LGBT context, so not surprising at all, and actually reasonable. Recently though, I saw it in a professional person's signature (might have been on AAAS, not sure). It does seem that this is really going overboard. Many years ago, when I had several trans acquaintances, I was under the impression that "trans" usually meant "transition", usually frank "sex change", and people going through that process strove to match the appearance of the opposite sex as completely as possible, have their gender marker legally changed, and blend into society as the sex they transitioned to. The most "genderqueer" people I knew were stone butch lesbians who were frequently mistaken for men - and HATED it as much as most women do when that happens. They would never mark "M" or "other" when asked to put down their gender, they were women who looked and felt masculine, but still identified as female. A small minority decided they really were men and went through sex change - to greater or lesser degrees, since female-to-male transsexual surgery is extremely difficult and not altogether satisfactory for most - but they didn't expect society to treat them as men until they were legally male. (Today it seems a larger number are jumping on the bandwagon and starting on testosterone - and many regret it later, but the effects are irreversible.)
I don't think there is anything necessarily wrong with someone who identifies as the opposite sex and wants to appear that way without going through sex change or legal gender change, but insisting they are victims of discrimination and demanding that society accommodate their unofficial "transition" just because it's their right to do that, is IMO a BIG step too far. And it's a sign of how far we've gone in the direction of letting ourselves be guilt tripped into insanity that we're actually acquiescing to this nonsense.
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I don't think there is anything necessarily wrong with someone who identifies as the opposite sex and wants to appear that way without going through sex change or legal gender change, but insisting they are victims of discrimination and demanding that society accommodate their unofficial "transition" just because it's their right to do that, is IMO a BIG step too far. And it's a sign of how far we've gone in the direction of letting ourselves be guilt tripped into insanity that we're actually acquiescing to this nonsense.
I agree. Someone can do whatever they want and refer to themselves however they want, but when that person insists that everyone else bend over backwards to accommodate a preference, I object.
When teaching or writing I do everything I can to be gender neutral, referring to "the CIO", "that student" or whatever. I avoid pronouns as much as possible just because I feel it's the right thing to do to avoid male/female stereotypes. That's fine.
I had a student who wanted to be referred to as "they". I had to sign a paper acknowledging that preference. I had no problem avoiding the problem by using the student's name or simply "the student". But in what would be a normal conversation other people said "They had trouble with the exam" I was left wondering how many of the students had trouble when it was actually just that one person. "Bob wants to meet with you, they have a problem" or even worse "Sue wants to meet with you, they has a problem". One student? Many? Are you having a stroke? Do what you want with your own pronouns, but when it causes me to do something unnatural, forget it.
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The entire pronoun thing is just more Progressive INSANITY. It dilutes, confuses, and complicates the English Language. When one must think to such a degree before speaking, or writing in an extremely unnatural and foreign context then we purposely hindered the ability to effectively communicate.
I refuse to participate in such absolute nonsense.
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Here's the video referenced in the article:
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Indulging snowflake homosexuals with special pronouns and special status and special preferences In Everything from hiring to education is just stupid bullshit pushed by stupid people for stupid reasons.
I refuse to even acknowledge such stupidity.
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Here's the video referenced in the article:
That is funny as HELL, because that is exactly what these MORONS want!
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bump to get the spammers off the front page
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Comparing politcal correctness to the rampant bloodshed of the French Revolution is histrionics of the highest order.
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Comparing politcal correctness to the rampant bloodshed of the French Revolution is histrionics of the highest order.
So is calling someone a racist that disagrees with another person that happens to be black or Hispanic. Did you watch the debates and see how often that happened? Even worse, it was frequently embedded in the questions by the so-called "impartial" moderators.
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Comparing politcal correctness to the rampant bloodshed of the French Revolution is histrionics of the highest order.
Yes indeed! Just look at the histrionics going on right now by the progressives.
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Comparing politcal correctness to the rampant bloodshed of the French Revolution is histrionics of the highest order.
Political Correctness is Societal BULLYING and soft tyranny which leads to the MOB type actions that destroy Rights, Freedoms, and Liberties. It started with the concept of "Hate Speech" which takes away Free Speech, and more, and more gun control laws which only affect the law abiding citizen.
If you saw any of the Democrat debates the term "Racism" was used over, and over and over. Everything is racist, sexist and homophobic now to polarize us. A divided populace is more easily controlled. I am very prepared for whatever happens.