Pronouns and Adjectives and Politics, Oh My

Heather Heying- How Now Cow of Brown?

This week, the Canadian province of British Columbia announced its fealty to a naked emperor, when it introduced “new modernizing legislation to correct outdated language by amending more than 2,300 instances of outdated gendered and binary terms from 21 ministries across 210 provincial statutes.”

Indeed

What language policing does is raises to consciousness the most mundane aspects of communication. This has at least two broadly negative effects. First, it makes it far more difficult to engage with people as the individuals that they are, rather than as an aggregation of demographic markers. And second, it makes it more difficult to discuss things of actual substance. Thus, we have the dumbing down of a population.

25 Replies to “Pronouns and Adjectives and Politics, Oh My”

  1. All you people, you know who you are!
    Don Cherry.
    It ain’t over till its over
    Y Berra
    Ya can’t get there from here
    Brown dirt cowboy

  2. Having reduced verbal communication to a meaningless babble,our fearless leaders are going to be “Totally Surprised” to receive kinetic communication.
    So sad.
    Too bad.
    Saying “I told you so” is a waste of breath when dealing with Oxygen Thieves.

  3. Good thing that the BC government took over all the medical/health care boards so they can now punish anyone who doesn’t play ball

  4. The language must be vandalized to include the lexicon of biological fantasy soon to be enforced by the state. BC, Canada’s equivalence to the derangement of California.

  5. Let’s modify the language further. We should end all adjectives with the proper ending so as to denote the correct gender.

    A person of coloral
    A person of colorelle
    A person of colorrex

    Or just have everyone learn cuneiform, and thus get rid of 5500 years of colonialism.

    Sarc?

  6. The politicisation of language started a long time ago in little increments.

    Now it is a mandatory waste of time and money.

    The dehumanisation also started a long time ago.

    1. No…Heather is a brilliant thinker and writer.
      She doesn’t need AI.
      She has real intelligence.

  7. The Death of the Individual.
    In the future each human organism will be known only as a member of a racially and sexually identified and segregated subgroup; and only permitted very limited interaction with members of other subgroups.

    1. Roaddog

      THX1138
      The movie
      Precience on steroids…
      You Can & will be prosecuted for drug evasion…

      Coming to a woke locale soon enough…

  8. Newspeak.
    Where it becomes impossible to even formulate thoughts that go against the Party line, except the left is going one step further, trying to make it impossible to formulate thoughts at all.
    I can say this as a mammal of bi-pedal posture with a cerebrum of size.

  9. My granddaughter’s current report cards are all in normal English. The immediately prior ones were using them and they instead of her and she. Progress!

    1. F**k off and die are much more effective.
      My pronouns are:
      “Genghis Kahn, destroyer of nations, pillager of towns, ravisher of women and leader of warriors.”
      Besides my Jovian potency, the lot of you pale to insignificance.

  10. Is it normal to let one of the retards drive the short bus to the school?
    It is in Canada, thanks to mental women, homos and weak men.

  11. The communist Chinese are behind turning our youth into weirdos and it’s working.Can you imagine the fight we could have put up in 1939 with this batch of simple bastards.

  12. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m old enough that my pronouns will now be “thee” and “thou” and my wife and I are of different sexes. How non-inclusive of me.

    1. Thee and thou – perfect! Anyone ever asks me that insane question that’s the answer I’m gonna give.

  13. two words ….
    the first word starts with “F”
    the second word starts with “O”
    that’s all I got to say about that!

  14. Thus, we have the dumbing down of a population.

    As if we need more dumbing-down ….

    I shall continue to speak the version of the English language my mama taught me back in the 1940s ….

    All language-tinkers can kiss my ass.

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