Category: Language Matters
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Merit and ‘Equity’
Those who lack merit too often seek to achieve by political means what they cannot achieve by accomplishing something. Leftists aid and abet them. Equality before the law and equality of opportunity are not enough for leftists: they demand equality of outcome. But this cannot arise naturally due to differences in interests, attitudes, abilities, and…
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“One Man’s Datum is Another Man’s Theory”
Why do I use 'man'? To exclude women? No, to exclude leftists, both men and women. I believe in equality when it comes to the exclusion of the destructive. In the '70s, when it first really got going, gender-inclusive language seemed to many a very good thing indeed. It showed a welcoming attitude to the…
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Wokespeak and Wokespoke
Here: “Equity.” Equity has now replaced the Civil Rights–era goal of “equality” — a word relegated to vestigial Wokespoke. After 60 years, equality apparently was exposed as a retrograde bourgeois synonym for the loaded “equality of opportunity” rather than a necessary, mandated “equality of result.” And rightly so, since any and every inequality of outcome…
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On Acquiring a Large Vocabulary
How does one acquire a large vocabulary? The first rule is to read, read widely, and read worthwhile materials, especially old books and essays. The second rule is to look up every word the meaning of which you do not know or are not certain of: don't be lazy. The third rule is to compile…
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Conspiracy Theories?
The Language Nazi doesn't much cotton to the loose lingo that leftists love. Hillary spoke of a "vast right wing conspiracy" directed against her husband. Maybe that's where the linguistic mischief started. How can a conspiracy be vast and composed of half the population? A conspiracy is a clandestine agreement among a small group of…
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‘On His Watch”
What happens on a person's watch may or may not be his responsibility. Or will you maintain that a Republican president is responsible for the arson and looting tolerated by Democrat mayors?
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Why are Lawyers so Unhappy?
Martin P. Seligman explains. 'Seligman'! Now there's an aptronym for you. Selig is German for happy, blessed, blissful, although it can also mean late (verstorben) and tipsy (betrunken). So Seligman is the happy man or happy one. Nomen est omen? Give some careful thought to what you name your kid. 'Chastity' may have an anti-aptronymic effect.…
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Diversity Worth Having
Diversity worth having presupposes a principle of unity that controls the diversity. Diversity must be checked and balanced by the competing value of unity, a value with an equal claim on our respect. Example. One language only in the public sphere makes possible many voices to be heard and understood by all. To communicate our…
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On ‘Peaceful’ Protests
Two points. The subversion of language is the mother of all subversion. Worse than condoning evil-doing is denying its very existence.
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Word of the Day: Gallimaufry
A gallimaufry is a hodgepodge. The word is of course white-supremacist so be careful of the contexts in which you use it, assuming you dare use it. After all, if correct grammar is racist, as per the Rutgers English Department, then a large vocabulary must also be. Don't forget: anything blacks are poor at is…
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New Lingo: ‘Cuckshed’ and ‘Wankerati’
Where the cuckservatives hang out. And what the 'wokerati' really are.
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The Ability to Write and to Comprehend a Good, Long Sentence . . .
. . . is one mark of an educated mind. You won't learn this in the English Department of Rutgers, however. Example: If you value the life of the mind, the pursuit of truth, the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge, high culture and its transmission, in short, the classical values of the university as set…
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Is ‘Looters’ Racist?
But of course! Blacks are 'over-represented' among looters. It would be racist to hold blacks to civilized standards of behavior because such behavior is not 'who they are.' Therefore, any use of 'looters' is racist. Is that the 'reasoning'? I'm just asking. See here: At the Los Angeles Times, for instance, an editor has said…
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Protesters?
BLM and Antifa members are 'protesters' in the same sense in which Rodney King was a 'motorist,' Trayvon Martin was 'a child on the way to the candy store,' Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri was an 'unarmed teenager,' and Adolf Hitler was a 'statesman.'
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Don’t Talk Like a ‘Liberal’!
When you do, you validate their obfuscatory and question-begging jargon. For example, leftists believe in something they call 'hate speech.' As they use the phrase, it covers legitimate dissent. It is foolish for a conservative to say that he is for 'hate speech,' or that 'hate speech' is protected speech. Dennis Prager has been known…