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Culture War Politics and the English Language
- nh23423fefe 4y agoAnother example of words without meaning. This article will be called "hate speech." But also I don't care about words like that. People at work want random pronouns, fine. It's just a fad, like wicca.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoA gay man invoking Orwell to attack the left wing and transgender community strikes me as odd somehow. Orwell once wrote: > One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England" and some suggest he had one specific gay man at the top of his mind when writing that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carpenter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Carpenter > Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights[1] and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. His Wikipedia is wild. EM Forster wrote a novel about him, which became the basis for DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.