Posted on 07/17/2023 5:19:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Forcing you to participate in the absurdity is the actual purpose.
Recently, Arizona Republican Eli Crane was rebuked for referring to “people of color” as “colored people.”
That’s a controversy which would, at any other time in the history of the English language, be incomprehensible to a sensible reader. After all, there’s no practical difference in the phrases. In fact, the choice to give preference to the phrase “people of color” is worse than practically useless to an English speaker -- it’s needlessly more burdensome to both the talker and the listener.
Consider this formula with any other trait. Would you refer to yourself as a “person of dark hair,”
SNIP
Many years ago, we were presented with a political coalition called LGB (lesbian, gay, bisexual), which later became LGBT somewhere in the 1990s to include transexuals. This later became LGBTQ, then LGBTQIA in recent years.
Back in March of 2022, when ESPN analysts protested a Florida bill which prohibits K-3 instruction regarding sexuality (with which nearly two-of-three Americans openly agree), the announcer referenced the coalition as “LGBTQIA+.”
That is eight, count ‘em, eight syllables that people are expected to speak whenever referencing this expanding group of supposedly marginalized people who, outside of their unusual sexual proclivities and/or peculiar means of self-identification, are otherwise completely unrelated. But that ridiculous acronym has quickly became the standard in professing one’s progressive bona fides here in America.
And yet -- there seems to be no consensus on the basic meaning of some of the letters of the acronym we’re meant to profess and chant in unison each June. Does the Q stand for “queer,” or “questioning?” Does the A stand for “asexual” or “allies?” It all seems to very much depend on whom you ask.
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What silly fools the leftists are if they think they can make me use their preferred terminology.
WTF is “2”?
In the aftermath of Sound of Freedom, where is the 'P'?
Disguised as one of those letters. Maybe Q?…
The second I could be illicit…
“ WTF is “2”?”
I’m told that is some kind of Indian tranny. (Two spirited)
This PsyOp is done by the right, too.
Don’t question [super patriots] or their publications.
If you do, you are implied to be a supporter or partaker of the lefty-action.
Have you seen it happen on FR?
2SLGBITQIA+
Needs more letters and numbers. Too vague as is.
This kind of crap is why I don’t watch tv, and read old books…
Daily and multiple times.
I don’t understand any of the crap, and don’t want to.
It's off on a date with B-for-beastiality. They'll be around soon enough.
Mais je suis rouge!
Had to look it up...
*2SLGTBQIA+ is an acronym for Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and the plus reflects the countless affirmative ways in which people choose to self-identify.
Not sure. Maybe binary.
Sadly I think that apt, albeit less so. In an argument over "this or that," there is so often three and more stances / options which might be considered, which the "two choices" game cannot allow.
One watched it thought the Covid "event" wherein being skeptical of the mRNA was declared to be "anti-vax" in order to obscure the possibility in discussion over "anti-THIS-PARTICULAR-INJECTION."
Ditto now, with the whole Ukraine/Russia mess, wherein not validating one side or the other so annoys the partisans of "this-or-that" who refuse any notion that "neither" is an alternative stance.
But the game is really the postmodern "oppressor-opposed" structure, wherein "maybe neither oppressor or oppressed" is the better stance. That cannot be allowed when the "let's you and someone else fight" game is pushed.
Apparently it’s two spirited, whatever weird crap that means.
I’m guessing anything goes…
Two spirited = demon possessed
:: That cannot be allowed when the “let’s you and someone else fight” game is pushed. ::
Exactly.
It is deflection.
It requires one to defend a position wholly created by someone else.
Strawman.
There needs to be a generic, all-encompassing response that puts you back on offense and shuts the moron up, but I'm too feeble minded to come up with such a brilliant statement.
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