Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 03:03:23 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Inconvenient lefties References: <17c1b8d02846d30e$126117$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 03:03:23 +0000 Lines: 97 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Vb09j+9WLXjYLWHES/3AP0KcO2u+Qoa4GZYk116M4qUzfYDiID0raNSkmZFNW+ERfGLWqSmEjLU321+!0pQ2rWC3ZADYM5GYNYWI1Xj450oB5b+Z31d2el6EqeXWGJu4uh/kgjpBVaYS/BIvAAZBrguCuO85 X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 6158 X-Original-Lines: 91 On Mar 30, 2024 at 7:35:37 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: > On 3/30/2024 4:14 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >> In article , FPP >> 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.