Re: Inconvenient lefties

On 3/30/2024 11:03 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Mar 30, 2024 at 7:35:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
 

On 3/30/2024 4:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  In article <uu9d90$1363u$5@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
  wrote:
 

  Your side is banning words, and banning books, and banning curriculum
  there, Sparky.

    Oh, don't worry. You hypocritical lefties will ban books in a heartbeat
  if they don't meet your ideological rigor:
 

  An online bookstore that advertised itself as being committed to sharing
  ideas, even those which are deemed controversial, has removed titles from
  conservative authors amid backlash.
>
  Television host and activist RuPaul is a co-founder of the "all-inclusive"
  online bookstore Allstora, according to National Review. He started the
  online store with LGBTQ advocate and author Eric Cervini and drag performer
  Adam Powell.
>
  The site advertised that they would carry titles from authors of all points
  of view, and books for sale on the site initially ranged from Adolf Hitler's
  "Mein Kampf" to the graphic, controversial coming-of-age book "Gender
Queer".
>
  "We're a marketplace for all books and all stories, with a focus on
elevating
  marginalized voices," the site originally touted, according to NR. "You may
  find books you disagree with," a pop-up ad warned, while the FAQ page said,
  "Allstora has made the decision to carry all books" and "censorship of any
  book, perspective, or story is incompatible with the survival of democracy."
>
  "Banning books is never the answer," the site's messaging, which has since
  been deleted, said, according to The Mary Sue. "We cannot fight the
  ideologies of hate if we lack the ability to study, understand, and react to
  them. We do that by reading books."
>
  However, left-wing activists were outraged that Allstora offered titles by
  Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Matt Walsh, Riley Gaines, and Libs of TikTok
founder
  Chaya Raichik, among others. At first, the website's founders attempted to
  diffuse tension by promising to create "a community-led flagging system for
  titles that are contrary to our core values and donating all proceeds from
  these titles to fight book bans," National Review noted.
>
  But that wasn't enough. After three days of critics railing against Allstora
  for selling "homophobic", "transphobic", "anti-woke", and "Nazi" books, the
  founders relented and removed all free speech messaging from the page. Many
  works by conservative authors were removed from the page, while some other
  titles remained available.
>
  The drama comes on the heels of RuPaul announcing a "Rainbow Book Bus" that
  seeks to distribute "diverse books to communities facing book bans and
  censorship, especially in LGBTQ+ communities". The bus will embark on a
cross
  country tour later this year, the DRAG RACE host told People during an
  interview this month.

    And you've got a lotta balls condemning Republicans for 'banning words'.
  You guys are the ultimate language police.
    First it was 'illegal alien' that was banned in favor of 'undocumented
  immigrant', then that was too "othering", so we couldn't say that any
  more either. Now it's 'pre-citizen', but I'm sure even that will be
  decried as 'stigmatizing' at some point. Hell, the latino grievance
  groups have even declared that calling someone a 'Mexican' is racist,
  even if they are a Mexican citizen from Mexico.
    Then there's 'gangs' and 'thug'. Not allowed to say them anymore because
  they 'stigmatize' blacks and latinos. Which forces good little progs to
  beclown themselves like Newsom did during a press conference about gang
  violence where he refused to say the word 'gang' and instead was
  thoroughly mocked for bowing to the prog mob and calling them 'groups of
  folks'.
    And there's all the words that are no longer allowed because the troons
  get worked up over them, like "mother". The leftist government currently
  in power has banned that horrible term in favor of "birthing person".
  The troons actually want Mother's Day to be renamed Birthing Person Day.
    But yeah, you go on and keep whining about Republicans banning words.

>
The tactic you're describing was invented by this guy:
>
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
>
...a *Conservative* who "advocated use of vocabulary crafted to produce
a desired effect; including use of the term 'death tax' instead of
'estate tax', and 'climate change' instead of 'global warming'."

 And? Does that somehow mean leftists aren't the maestros of language
policing?
 It sure wasn't conservatives at Stanford University that issued a 30-page
dictionary of all the banned words on campus.

Thought you'd want to know who invented it (and now gripes at it).