I really don’t understand why anyone would get mad over any word being added to the dictionary unless the definition is obviously biased. I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.
We have to understand that to the conservative mind, the very notion of “bias” doesn’t make sense because it implies a relative difference between perspectives.
I say this also about the idea of conservative “punching down” in that to them, the concept is nonsense. They do not live in the same world we do. To them there is only “punching.” If there’s a threat, “punch” at it. They don’t recognize or understand the idea of class or privilege, there is only “how I feel at this moment.” And as depressing as it is to understand, it’s literally the only thing they can grasp. Linear thinking.
We have a whole giant chunk of the population who have never been taught how to use language to reshape perspectives in their head, and as such, live in a linear world where there is only a “now” feeling and the means in which that feeling must be attacked or defended.
This is why it’s utterly bonkers people keep trying to argue with them from a place of consistency, going “that’s hypocritical!” like they even grasp it. They will say it back to you like it’s just an insult, not what it represents. This is why you see them all saying the same buzzwords back at you. “You’re the weird one!” “You’re the nazi!” “You’re the fascist!” they don’t know or care what the words mean, it’s punching and that’s all that matters.
I strongly feel if we, all of us who have functional frontal lobes and language centers, understood this better we would be far better at shaping the public narrative and not making it worse by arguing nonsense they don’t understand.
At least, it would have been but we let it go for too long and now they own the country and are pillaging our coffers and the next generation of kids is going to have even worse language skills and comprehension because they’re going to be educated in churches and private schools that teach the importance of spirit and herbs and how the blacks started the civil war.
Agreed. With the continued erosion of education, the onslaught of mis/disinformation, the hijacking of our brain chemistry, and the general constant anxiety of trying to exist under late stage capitalism, it’s going to keep getting worse.
I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.
Hey it is me JD Vance, I was and still am upset, kids giggling reminds me other people experience joy and love and then I start to feel like an empty monster.
Yes yes I do of course but I am afraid the couches are getting woke and will start demanding all the same silly stuff women get upset at me about.
Earlier after I lay in post-couchital bliss with a lover she started harassing me about how I don’t think God intended couches to wear covers that denied members access to their inner folds. I had to scream at her that Jesus only intended this for masculine reclining chairs that must have their vulnerable orifices protected and that femine couches are only penetrated when they want to be.
Why won’t anyone listen to me, I am the Vice President Of The United States!?! Don’t I deserve respect? I am pretty sure the law says people have to respect me even International Law at the UN does, this isn’t fair.
I really don’t understand why anyone would get mad over any word being added to the dictionary unless the definition is obviously biased. I remember giggling at the profanity and racial slurs in the dictionary when I was a kid and nobody was upset about that as far as I know.
We have to understand that to the conservative mind, the very notion of “bias” doesn’t make sense because it implies a relative difference between perspectives.
I say this also about the idea of conservative “punching down” in that to them, the concept is nonsense. They do not live in the same world we do. To them there is only “punching.” If there’s a threat, “punch” at it. They don’t recognize or understand the idea of class or privilege, there is only “how I feel at this moment.” And as depressing as it is to understand, it’s literally the only thing they can grasp. Linear thinking.
We have a whole giant chunk of the population who have never been taught how to use language to reshape perspectives in their head, and as such, live in a linear world where there is only a “now” feeling and the means in which that feeling must be attacked or defended.
This is why it’s utterly bonkers people keep trying to argue with them from a place of consistency, going “that’s hypocritical!” like they even grasp it. They will say it back to you like it’s just an insult, not what it represents. This is why you see them all saying the same buzzwords back at you. “You’re the weird one!” “You’re the nazi!” “You’re the fascist!” they don’t know or care what the words mean, it’s punching and that’s all that matters.
I strongly feel if we, all of us who have functional frontal lobes and language centers, understood this better we would be far better at shaping the public narrative and not making it worse by arguing nonsense they don’t understand.
At least, it would have been but we let it go for too long and now they own the country and are pillaging our coffers and the next generation of kids is going to have even worse language skills and comprehension because they’re going to be educated in churches and private schools that teach the importance of spirit and herbs and how the blacks started the civil war.
Agreed. With the continued erosion of education, the onslaught of mis/disinformation, the hijacking of our brain chemistry, and the general constant anxiety of trying to exist under late stage capitalism, it’s going to keep getting worse.
Hey it is me JD Vance, I was and still am upset, kids giggling reminds me other people experience joy and love and then I start to feel like an empty monster.
I hear fucking a couch is a great way to relieve stress, and feel better, you ever tried that?
Yes yes I do of course but I am afraid the couches are getting woke and will start demanding all the same silly stuff women get upset at me about.
Earlier after I lay in post-couchital bliss with a lover she started harassing me about how I don’t think God intended couches to wear covers that denied members access to their inner folds. I had to scream at her that Jesus only intended this for masculine reclining chairs that must have their vulnerable orifices protected and that femine couches are only penetrated when they want to be.
Why won’t anyone listen to me, I am the Vice President Of The United States!?! Don’t I deserve respect? I am pretty sure the law says people have to respect me even International Law at the UN does, this isn’t fair.