i think that the way things are going on the left / in the media, in fairly short order "white supremacist" will become the official new term for "republican"
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @MorlockP and
this is simultaneously bad because it's unfair and dehumanizing to 75 million americans, and bad because it trivializes something actually harmful to make leftists feel morally superior to their neighbors. it's class war bullshit, as far as i can tell.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @MorlockP and
I don't want Republicans to become identified with white supremacists in the public mind fortunately it's pretty easy to avoid being identified with white supremacists
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Replying to @rebelcinder @MorlockP and
all they need to do is become progressives, right?
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @MorlockP and
Well, optimally, I'd like everyone to agree with every one of my manifestly correct opinions but in the interim, till the eschaton is immanentized, I'll settle for "not denying the existence of racism in American society, and its effect on American law and policy"
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Replying to @rebelcinder @mr_archenemy and
expressed as, say, supporting a renewal of the Voting Rights Act?
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Replying to @rebelcinder @mr_archenemy and
I agree with the Voting Rights Act that literacy tests are bad I disagree, because I think that math and logic tests are better prerequisitives to voting
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy and
my personal opinion is that being able to spell "prerequisites" is key
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Replying to @rebelcinder @mr_archenemy and
I CAN spell it that way, but I can also spell it other ways!
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy and
ooh look at the descriptivist at work I guess I have to concede your right to do so, damn and blast your eyes language is a living thing
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I AM a descriptivist !
I've defended AAV and other regionalisms.
In a Slack I taunt @BostonDelendEst every time he gets pedantic, asking him why he supports a French style, gov run Academy of the English language.
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Replying to @MorlockP @mr_archenemy and
I have a soft spot for the kind of prescriptivists who want to purify English of all foreign borrowings, bless their innocent hearts "DON'T SAY RESURRECTION SAY GRAINRISING" kawaii in extremis
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Replying to @rebelcinder @mr_archenemy and
LOL, I've got someone ...ahem... very close to me, writing a historical / fantasy story, and there's a bunch of language research going on [ no politics to it, just appropriate tone for the setting ]
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