After I caught them recommending the word "wimmin" in place of "women," University of Texas administrators have removed their "Language Matters" guide from the university website.
Unfortunately for them, I've archived the page and will report more next week.
It always interests me what the situations are where people or institutions will retreat from woke excess when exposed. There are so few times when it’s disadvantageous to be as woke as possible, so it’s fascinating when someone runs from it.
Oh, I agree completely. It’s just always fascinating to me to see where the limit is at a given time, and particularly what kind of attention from normal people causes woke believers to backtrack vs what causes them to stand their ground and insist normal people are just unenlightened bigots. It’s a good indicator of where the wider society is on seeing certain woke things as acceptable vs excessive, and it’s also interesting to see some people recognize that.
This is oversimplifying the etymology, but sort of, yes…
“Man” wasn’t really thought of as exclusively referring to “adult human male”, rather than “humanity collectively” until relatively recently, so… Also that.
Fuck, even in the 1940s, it was generally used (at least formally) in the broad sense of “human”, mostly, so…
It’s rather absurd how hung up on those three letters people have become. 🤦🏻♂️
At some point they're going to have to admit that the gender disparity at universities is what causes this and that 'too many women' isn't a heavenly utopia, instead it's a dystopic, backstabbing hellscape full of pseudo-intellectual flights of fancy. An adult daycare center.
Then they end up in fake corporate daycare jobs. Like HR and marketing. Endless meetings, breaks, and team building vacations to the cafeteria. 6 producers, HR, advisor, managers, product managers for every coder. Endlessly blanding every brand into the ground with activisms.
Lol This is like their amen / awomen bullshit. They don't understand jack shit and they're flailing around and hurting themselves in their ignorance and confusion.
This has been a feminist thing since at least 1980. I suppose this official pronouncement from a university says something about their current state.
End all state funding of state colleges, with re-funding contingent on the following reforms:
Purge all faculty and administration, hire new personnel on scholarly merit and humanistic teaching philosophy, not political orientation
Remove all DIE apparatus
Revise mission statements to previous goals of impartial curation and transmission of knowledge and advancing reason, removing all social justice components.
In short, the only way out is the Rufo/DeSantis project on a national scale.
What the actual fuck is that definition of white supremacy.
The continued existence of the white race.
I'm not sure what it'll take for people to wake up about that one at this point.
The left (and the uniparty portion of the right) has been very clear they hate white people and want us genocided
Dunno, but if that is accurate, I don't understand why people outside of Europe would be so concerned about it.
Critical Theory in action.
The page was later taken down. https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1653532410716524545
Nitter links: https://nitter.net/realchrisrufo/status/1653454472956506112
https://nitter.net/realchrisrufo/status/1653532410716524545
It always interests me what the situations are where people or institutions will retreat from woke excess when exposed. There are so few times when it’s disadvantageous to be as woke as possible, so it’s fascinating when someone runs from it.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant ☀
A frog jumped so they turned the pot down a little, that's all. No one got fired, nothing changed, they'll try again in a few years.
Oh, I agree completely. It’s just always fascinating to me to see where the limit is at a given time, and particularly what kind of attention from normal people causes woke believers to backtrack vs what causes them to stand their ground and insist normal people are just unenlightened bigots. It’s a good indicator of where the wider society is on seeing certain woke things as acceptable vs excessive, and it’s also interesting to see some people recognize that.
Good point. Here it is: https://archive.is/jMALM
Nonono, the Texas woke dictionary page was taken down. No action from twitter.
"women" doesn't even come from "men" as a word. one is english. the other is french.
Yeah, it's like that old joke question "Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?"
Because the words parkway and driveway have different, unrelated origins.
no it isn't. it's because you're a racist, sexist, nazi bigot! now donate 10% of your annual income to me, or we'll label you as a nazi even more!
Parkway is also very rarely used outside North America. To avoid this confusion (at least partly. But also for other historical reasons)…
Kind of a cool idea, though, the original “parkway” concept.
“Driveway”, on the other hand…
There’s an Australian metal band called Parkway Drive. I’m not a fan, but I do know people who know them, and they’re huge, at the moment…
Anyway, obviously their name is an attempted pun, based on that whole thing…
This is oversimplifying the etymology, but sort of, yes…
“Man” wasn’t really thought of as exclusively referring to “adult human male”, rather than “humanity collectively” until relatively recently, so… Also that.
Fuck, even in the 1940s, it was generally used (at least formally) in the broad sense of “human”, mostly, so…
It’s rather absurd how hung up on those three letters people have become. 🤦🏻♂️
Jokes gonna be on them though, right my fellow min?
"Min" is actually already a thing in the north of Scotland, specifically the towns east of Inverness along the coast 🤷🏻♂️
At some point they're going to have to admit that the gender disparity at universities is what causes this and that 'too many women' isn't a heavenly utopia, instead it's a dystopic, backstabbing hellscape full of pseudo-intellectual flights of fancy. An adult daycare center.
Then they end up in fake corporate daycare jobs. Like HR and marketing. Endless meetings, breaks, and team building vacations to the cafeteria. 6 producers, HR, advisor, managers, product managers for every coder. Endlessly blanding every brand into the ground with activisms.
Oh, it’s even worse with public service jobs (mostly at the state level), trust me…
“Executive Officer to the Undersecretary of the Division of the Sub-Department” should not be a thing, but here we are…
And yeah, really, someone I used to know legitimately has that job…
Seems u/Vivs3rdSock was correct about our resident social censor.
Censorer? Censoror? 🤔
It just sounds like “Black American vernacular English” to me, but what would I know…?
“We is wimmin n sheeit”, etc…
Also, their definition of “woke” is hilariously poorly justified and badly written…
Like, what the actual fuck is that shit?
This is a University, here, and they can’t even write English properly, lol…
Lol This is like their amen / awomen bullshit. They don't understand jack shit and they're flailing around and hurting themselves in their ignorance and confusion.
This has been a feminist thing since at least 1980. I suppose this official pronouncement from a university says something about their current state.
End all state funding of state colleges, with re-funding contingent on the following reforms:
Purge all faculty and administration, hire new personnel on scholarly merit and humanistic teaching philosophy, not political orientation
Remove all DIE apparatus
Revise mission statements to previous goals of impartial curation and transmission of knowledge and advancing reason, removing all social justice components.
In short, the only way out is the Rufo/DeSantis project on a national scale.