"Many advocates" — who are those advocates? why are they significant?
"as it is known" — known by who? advocates? critics?
"it forced" — who is it? what specific people or institutions? are they significant or of consequence?
"as it is known" — known by who? advocates? critics?
"it forced" — who is it? what specific people or institutions? are they significant or of consequence?
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I’ve never encountered “chestfeeding”
https://bsky.app/profile/lawnerd.bsky.social/post/3lifvh5pcgs2f
It certainly isn’t some big woke bogeyman coming for your free speech (nothing is), but it is a thing that *exists* even if not super common.
https://www.healthline.com/health/chestfeeding
A broad and super unspecific “many people” (or variant) say X and it is because… blah blah blah
And people still gobble it down.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america
Just very imprecise writing in addition to being 100% brain-missing
The only time that they're specific is when they are naming their targets & even then, their cowardice asses will use dog whistles.
They need deniability because they know they have no real arguments.
Q: Which words do you feel pressure to avoid saying in public?
98% A: n-----, c---, r-------
Q: Any others?
98% A: ???
Atlantic, NYT, Wapo columnists:
100% A: I will need to write five 2000 word essays to catalog all of them
Those linguistic changes were bottom-up more than they were top-down and were likely appropriated by individuals BEFORE they were promoted as "DEI hires" after George Floyd's murder.
So many take writers need to re-read (or just read) this classic before writing another word.
As we scrape away the rhetoric frosting & notice the word "eugenics" come up more often, that "everyone" becomes more chilling
Duh!
It's often seasonal too.
April: they won't let us celebrate St George's Day (The Mayor of London has a big event every year)
International Women's Day: when's international men's day? (19th November)
1) recognize "woke" language policing happens/happened
2) engage in critical introspection about where it results in alienation rather than inclusion
3) develop ability advocate legit reasons for evolving some language w/o calling anyone who disagrees a "bigot"
"US citizens" is not appropropriate analogue because not everyone has citizenship.
"American" similarly doesn't reflect the...
This is one reason many people prefer the neologism "USians".
It accounts for all of these histories/realities and is specific in its geographical reference.
It's like saying "she made me rape her bc she looked pretty."
yeah that checks
Always to receive, but never to give
Always carry news all over the place
Mr. Chatterton, you are a big disgrace
Your teeth and your tongue a-go let you down
And a-when them let you down, we a-go batter you around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUn3HrjJwXk
There wasn't a warning label, so I'm providing it...
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america
What % of the supposed woke advocate population?
I believe the author of the original piece is actually extrapolating from a Stanford "consider don't using these words" publication and treating it like anybody ever believed it was holy writ.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_paper_bag_test
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact." - VP,Henry A. Wallace
Charles R. Lawrence III, 1990
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3115&context=dlj
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/06/10/state-approves-strict-teaching-standards-opposing-critical-race-theory/7621918002/
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/17/students-say-they-will-leave-ohio-if-lawmakers-go-forward-with-massive-higher-education-overhaul/#:~:text=S.B.%201%20would%20ban%20diversity,history%20course%2C%20among%20other%20things.
It's like they're just trying to pack in as many points of agitation as possible.
Liars and more liars. Bigots and liars. Worthless.
Because I'm pretty sure the only examples they can give will either be specifically about the names of public school sports teams, or some bizarre person who no one in the left actually listens to or is even aware of.
So yes...?
Why is that.
History matters!
Because in 2025, thats his attempt at relevance.
What else do you do w a cultural criticism degree, a paris residency and you already wrote two autobiographies, lol
Finger on the pulse of cherry picked anecdote
No wonder they're haphazardly Ctrl+F deleting the .gov Internet by keyword.. so sloppy it's not even proper censorship really, just cruel harassment & make work to craft the headline of winning
I’m tired
“O’er the land of the free,
and the home of the ???”
It was from a Stanford IT circular in late 2022, never university policy, and quickly disavowed by the department.
But the circular provoked a feeding frenzy in right wing media for weeks.
Yes, calling someone a “Brave” in noun form is a slur. It’s offensive. People who want to use slurs and face no social consequences for it are bad people!
Just peak disingenuousness (but about what we’d expect from that writer).
I don't think people stopped using those words.
This is like the "war on Christmas" where people kept saying it was illegal to say "Christmas" and it was never illegal.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/anne-applebaum-twilight-democracy/
It's just the same 'culture war' excuses and BS that laid the groundwork for their complete disconnect from reality and embracing fascism. It's ironic in that way.
A chest doesn’t feed.
A breast does.
Get over it
But literally no one forced it on us!
Pretty sure that counts as “woke mob”.
If people didn't see it through an iPhone camera, it's myth and legend.
That does make me wonder what the age for X is.. or BlueSky.
But I am pretty sure the median Bluesky is slightly older than the leadership at 1 First St.
He’s easily the worst of the high-minded bad writers of “the center” and I’m absolutely flummoxed as to how he gets work
This is what happens.
https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/may-2019/the-true-story-of-chicagos-welfare-queen/
Every personality type has its good points, but it also has weaknesses or the negative aspects. 1/
You knew. I knew. They can’t.
2/2
In a masterpiece of willful ignorance, many of them are also levelled at "Health and Safety gone mad" and sometimes "Europe".
but I have NEVER seen any Hispanic person get half as offended about "Latinx" or "Latine" as white Anglo conservatives do.
South African Nazis have taken over their party and they're still apoplectic about pronouns in signature lines?
Have they never read "G-d and Man at Yale"?
Do any of them know the history of their own movement?
Also, I didn’t even need to look it up to know exactly who wrote this 🙄
"Political Correctness" for the 80s/90s is the same basic complaint as "Cancelled" and "DEI"
George Will and others are cut from the same cloth as this.
To an administration banning science and words outright.
"You hurt people's feelings and turned them into fascists!". These are people who have never taken responsibility for anything ever.
They are absolute trash
P.S. This guy lives in France with his white (oops TCW, White) French author wife.
https://bsky.app/profile/sababausa.bsky.social/post/3krlyhsmvec2p
Anyway, I now have the name “Tommy Chatty Williams” stuck in my head
No, too much
(Just don’t accidentally add an [’s] at the end of Tommy, or the name becomes something else entirely)
"Thomas Chatterton Williams is […] a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute."
The sign:
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3li5taaxaac2h
I'm glad I've never given them any money.
I mean, nobody told me not to call it breast feeding or brown bag lunch. The primary suite was held up as an example of a nice thing to do. Manpower and workforce mean two different things & some editor somewhere probably noted a connotation & somebody took offense.
I will adopt their nomenclature.
Or was that "Gulf of America?" I can can't keep my forced orthodoxies straight... be right back, gotta ask google.
My fav is saying "he's hot" about a man on TV and getting weird looks or being laughed at as "gay". Insecurity is a prereq for Those Guys
Nowhere in the statement does it suggest to stop using 'breastfeeding' except in very specific clinical contexts.
Mistakes were made.
... But of course that would be crazy right?
Some of the terms were 100% off the wall, unnessary
This message isn’t designed to persuade. It is intended as a signal, a secret handshake, to denote belonging.
“Some people say…”
Taking any fact and putting a question mark on it.
excuse me, staradulthumans