tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1442436905260984966..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Language as a boobytrapUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34968673146263820982014-03-26T20:51:08.969-07:002014-03-26T20:51:08.969-07:00"Svigor said...
""In other words, ..."Svigor said...<br /><br />""In other words, there is no term for white people of European descent whose families have been in the U.S. for generations (is there?)<br /><br />Peter Brimelow calls them "Colonial-stock Americans" or "old stock Americans.""<br /><br />American-Americans."<br /><br />Doormat-AmericansMr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90377965086192245322014-03-25T16:28:08.226-07:002014-03-25T16:28:08.226-07:00http://www.infowars.com/professor-90-of-news-stori...http://www.infowars.com/professor-90-of-news-stories-to-be-written-by-computers-by-2030/<br /><br />Hey Steve, I assume you already saw that? The LAT is already publishing stories written by bots?Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39224064231158920372014-03-25T16:00:54.175-07:002014-03-25T16:00:54.175-07:00In other words, there is no term for white people ...<i>In other words, there is no term for white people of European descent whose families have been in the U.S. for generations (is there?)<br /><br />Peter Brimelow calls them "Colonial-stock Americans" or "old stock Americans."</i><br /><br />American-Americans.<br />Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52174732836162388452014-03-25T08:50:32.570-07:002014-03-25T08:50:32.570-07:00This is just another example of the Euphemism Trea...This is just another example of the Euphemism Treadmill. Here's another example, the word "crippled" and its successors.<br /><br />Being crippled is a bad thing, so we were told to call crippled people "handicapped" instead. So we did.<br /><br />Being handicapped is a bad thing, so we were told to call crippled/handicapped people "disabled" instead. So we did.<br /><br />Being disabled is a bad thing, so we are told to call crippled/handicapped/disabled people "differently-abled" instead. I'm tired of the treadmill, so I've stepped off the damned thing.The Monsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15291546809967159683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62609309407182958822014-03-25T04:02:18.231-07:002014-03-25T04:02:18.231-07:00I suggest that "homosexual" be used to r...I suggest that "homosexual" be used to refer to people with a particular sexual disposition. This usage is different to "gay", a term which implies that the person enthusiastically acts on that disposition. (And of course "homosexual" includes lesbians, unlike "gay".)<br /><br />By the way, "sodomite" should be used to refer to people who practice sodomy. I assume that not all gays practice this particular activity.Felix Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75210630342766419822014-03-24T21:45:51.908-07:002014-03-24T21:45:51.908-07:00I note that Kingsley Amis in his book on English-l...I note that Kingsley Amis in his book on English-language style ceded the word "gay" to the homosexuals on the grounds that it was a small enough concession to a put-upon people. I wonder if he would reevaluate that stance today.<br /><br />As for me, I do prefer the term "sodomite" as the oldest English appellation, but one has to be ready for the backlash with that. So I often use the almost-as-ancient but much-less-well-known "bardash."Percy Grycenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41722002124242016342014-03-24T21:28:36.482-07:002014-03-24T21:28:36.482-07:00I just call them gynephobes and heterophobes (or a...I just call them gynephobes and heterophobes (or androphobes), that way there's no confusion.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-673622851898315192014-03-24T20:34:28.335-07:002014-03-24T20:34:28.335-07:00you made my day with that. you made my day with that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24696351507419325712014-03-24T19:07:02.847-07:002014-03-24T19:07:02.847-07:00In other words, there is no term for white people ...<i> In other words, there is no term for white people of European descent whose families have been in the U.S. for generations (is there?)</i><br /><br />Peter Brimelow calls them "Colonial-stock Americans" or "old stock Americans."Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32023680598094765522014-03-24T18:09:33.875-07:002014-03-24T18:09:33.875-07:00And then the bisexuals and trans will have their t...<i>And then the bisexuals and trans will have their turn persecuting the losers who say "lesbian and gay." And then the different flavors of trans will get to persecute those who aren't paying adequate attention to their immensely important differences, and so forth ad infinitum.</i><br /><br />Well, probably not, actually. I think that society is ultimately self-correcting — though perhaps not with the speed we would like. But I suspect the wheels will fall off the Cultural Marxist clown car before we're all socially required to parse all the different varieties of trans-whatevers. At some point there will be a pushback, not for reasons of morality or tradition, but for the simple reason that efficiency-minded elites will get fed up with having to juggle the increasingly-incompatible demands of so many different factions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7624034353960149262014-03-24T17:59:19.740-07:002014-03-24T17:59:19.740-07:00I second Samson J's comment above: pay close a...I second Samson J's comment above: pay close attention to the ways in which the media/Great and Good now use the words 'husband' and 'wife'. After more or less disappearing, these traditional terms have suddenly come back, in self-consciously conspicuous usages, to refer to the 'spouses' of homosexuals. <br /><br />So heterosexual people may have, at best, 'partners', while gays get the husbands and lesbians claim the wives. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78734963572733271832014-03-24T15:35:29.315-07:002014-03-24T15:35:29.315-07:00The fairness obsession has become madness.
It has...<i>The fairness obsession has become madness.<br /><br />It has, in fact, become a form of S&M.</i><br /><br />America (and the west) is in the grip of some kind of collective psychological malady vis-a-vis race. Mad as a hatter, really. "Gaslighted" is in the ballpark.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86325234649433781482014-03-24T15:32:46.410-07:002014-03-24T15:32:46.410-07:00ad nauseam
Haha, I'm the guy who always corre...<i>ad nauseam</i><br /><br />Haha, I'm the guy who always corrects people on that one everywhere, after some anonymous snob here called me a Philistine for using two Us. I feel like I'm saving them from him.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5286307423683167792014-03-24T15:30:01.160-07:002014-03-24T15:30:01.160-07:00Micro aggressions have nano aggressions,
To margin...<i>Micro aggressions have nano aggressions,<br />To marginalize and slight 'em,<br />And nano aggressions have pico aggressions,<br />And so ad infinitum.</i><br /><br />Nicely done.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91388085507816527612014-03-24T15:28:49.199-07:002014-03-24T15:28:49.199-07:00The guy has a point, or at least, a coincidence. T...The guy has a point, or at least, a coincidence. The only time I use "gay" is as a put-down. I use "homosexual" to refer to them the rest of the time.<br /><br />"African-American" was chosen because it's long, has two capitalized letters, works to affirm blacks' American-ness, and is sort of official-sounding. But homosexuals want to go the other way and keep it monosyllabic. Whatever.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65561778351481021582014-03-24T13:22:37.180-07:002014-03-24T13:22:37.180-07:00This language boobytrap might be more than status-...This language boobytrap might be more than status-marking—one might even describe it as "language as <i>shibboleth</i>." As with that Hebrew word (<i>shibbólet</i> שִׁבֹּלֶת), whose "sh" sound was difficult for non-Hebrews to pronounce, the constantly shifting landscape of acceptable political speech serves to differentiate the in-group from the out-group. In other words, you might support the rights of negroes and homosexuals, but if you describe your views in those terms you immediately mark yourself as a member of the wrong tribe (or at least as a tribal member who isn't fully with it).Lex Corvushttp://twitter.com/LexCorvusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33555442388809581082014-03-24T12:50:54.293-07:002014-03-24T12:50:54.293-07:00In the MacPherson report into the murder in London...In the MacPherson report into the murder in London of what the BBC calls "the black teenager Stephen Lawrence*", the fact that some officers used the word "coloured" to describe non-native Britons (which was the polite word to use in the 1950s/60s - "black" would have been considered rude if not insulting) was presented in court as proof of their racism.<br /><br />http:/www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs05.pdf<br /><br />* the BBC don't call the victim of a riot a few years earlier "the white policeman Keith Blakelock". I wonder why not ?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42561696889282544972014-03-24T12:16:20.093-07:002014-03-24T12:16:20.093-07:00Just this morning my dentist told me that at his C...Just this morning my dentist told me that at his Catholic high school in San Francisco (in the '60's), the football coach had to be eased out because he was - um - you know.smead jolleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6358714334365029812014-03-24T11:05:29.489-07:002014-03-24T11:05:29.489-07:00People of choler.
P.S. Ahoy. Steve, Tiger Cub stu...People of choler.<br /><br />P.S. Ahoy. Steve, Tiger Cub stuff.<br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/marthagilltech/100012936/why-pushy-parents-lower-their-childrens-grades/deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67581059870349337622014-03-24T10:44:58.680-07:002014-03-24T10:44:58.680-07:00nothing new. controlling language is a long time, ...nothing new. controlling language is a long time, basic tactic of the cultural marxists. i've noted this many times on here.<br /><br />their greatest victory was getting everybody to call short fat american indians 'latinos'.<br /><br />it would be like them convincing everybody that eskimos are 'slavs', because russia controlled alaska for a while.<br /><br />they had no use for trying to convince us that africans were europeans. so despite almost all africans in the US having names like Leroy Washington, and speaking English, and being Baptist or Methodists, all of which are totally alien to africans, none of which came from africa, and all of which were adopted directly from europeans, cultural marxists never tried to convince us that english named, english speaking, protestant religion practicing africans were, in fact, anglo saxons.<br /><br />however, the 5 foot tall brown guys down at the home depot are hispanic.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63583367790507509852014-03-24T08:39:47.845-07:002014-03-24T08:39:47.845-07:00Femtoaggressions are the most harmful of all, as t...Femtoaggressions are the most harmful of all, as they can't even be picked up by Scanning Electron Agressoscopes.<br /><br />But you can feel them, Steve.<br /><br />You can feel them.BurplesonAFBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63775004734712868372014-03-24T08:19:53.430-07:002014-03-24T08:19:53.430-07:00The politically correct word that encompasses all ...The politically correct word that encompasses all the flavors of sexual nonconformism (gay, lesbian, bi, trans and so on) is "QUEER"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15520248543461391792014-03-24T07:55:59.059-07:002014-03-24T07:55:59.059-07:00These guys are idiots. "Gay" denotes a p...These guys are idiots. "Gay" denotes a particular cultural understanding of homosexuality. Time-travellers excepted, there were no gays in Ancient Greece, and there are no gay animals. <br /><br />"Same-sex" might seem like reasonably inoffensive alternative, but two points: First, "same-sex relationship" is ambiguous in a way that "same-sex marriage" is not, because relationships are not always even potentially sexual, though this may be news to some in the LBGTetc. circuit. Second, why would we *not* want to offend the self-proclaimed language (and would-be thought) police? In fact, isn't there a kind of moral duty to offend them. So long as it amuses our fellow citizens, I say yes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13012347212619289402014-03-24T07:54:27.623-07:002014-03-24T07:54:27.623-07:00Decades ago when using colloquial language to disc...Decades ago when using colloquial language to discuss sexual orientation, it was acceptable to use the queer vs straight dichotomy . <br /><br />The word queer having the meaning since Shakespeare of eccentric, unusual, weird, bent, irregular, the opposite of normative... <br /><br />The nice thing about the word queer, is that it was applicable to the diversity of persona/identities that homosexuals adopt; the "Macho Man", body beautiful narcissist, BSMD leather fetishist, Twink, Drag Queen, the effeminate, the bitchy....<br /> <br />Then in the 1970's the "gay" liberation movement declared war on the word queer. <br /><br />The funny thing is that militant and simply recalcitrant homosexuals have never gotten the memo and still use queer. <br /><br />My question is why can't the rest of use queer because it does not have the down with the agenda connotation that gay does? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67608109100355272802014-03-24T07:36:15.045-07:002014-03-24T07:36:15.045-07:00< A forlorn hope of course, the whole point is ...< A forlorn hope of course, the whole point is to force decent people to grovel. ><br /><br />Precisely. Which is why I, too, refuse to adopt any preferred modes of address. It is now known, by the young fools who work at the bank branch I frequent, not to address me by my first name unless so invited.<br /><br />For a time I answered the marketing calls by asking the caller what gave him the right to ask for a stranger by his given name. The morons doing the calling literally stammered; they didn't know how to respond. That got boring; I now pick up and hang up.<br /><br />Microaggressions? You want micro? Hell no. All macro, all the time.Sheilanoreply@blogger.com