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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Why Woke Can Never Be Woke Enough...

Stephen Pinker on "The Euphemism Treadmill"

Connotations are Stereotypical.  You can Bait & Switch escape them temporarily, but like a bad penny, they ALWAYS return.  Euphemism is this futile, often neoracist linguistic tactic to flatter and virtue signal (aka- a relatively cheap transactional attempt to gain "Social Capital") friendship rather then do the hard work needed to actually establish a lasting friendship.  One in which the usefulness of the other person to you in the social relationship obtained temporarily through flattery appears more important than establishing a long lasting friendship through straight talk, mutual honesty, and respect.

You'll know when certain minorities have achieved social equality the day people stop inventing euphemisms out of guilt-pride to describe them, and stop seeking to gain surplus self-pride through using euphemisms to describe them.

Today that Flattery Must be Individualized through Use the Preferred Pronouns.  One wouldn't want to appear Racist/ Sexist using the older well-connotated term on the euphemism escalator (no longer a level treadmill)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Attempts to create a problem where one doesn't exist. MAGA.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

^^Attempt to create enemies where none exist^^

Anonymous said...

Yawn. Every time. Every politician.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...an excuse for not delivering on promises. "The racists opposed me!"

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

ps - I missed your insights, Q.