Musings on recent internet events re. "The Word of Power," some strange phenomenon occasionally seen in the traumatically brain injured, & what it means for American and western society re. race
Disagree about “inexcusable” which is buying into the whole taboo nonsense. Some out of control kid, with no parents around to control or discipline him, was rummaging through this woman’s stuff, while she’s a single mother out with her child in a public place. She may be under all kinds of stress. She doesn’t look like she’s enjoying an upper middle class, comfortable life. She’s not a “Karen.” Her irritated outburst was indeed excusable, and the type of consequences you say should be applied to her, such as having her work impacted by it, are far too excessive.
I don't know if I'd call it "excusable" as much as I'd call it "understandable." She was angry and flustered. We say things in anger we wouldn't otherwise say, sometimes. But it's just words.
Perhaps the getting downgraded to the night shift by her boss is too much. Either way - the point is the consequences this Omar fellow clearly wished to mete out on Shiloh are obviously wildly, massively, psychotically disproportionate and ridiculous - and it's good this happened to stop it. And perhaps it will mean something, in the end!
I will stick with excusable. Meaning, she should not be punished for it.
The idea that millions of people because of their skin color may not pronounce a two syllable word whereas the people to whom the word historically applied may sling it around however they want, is a bizarre form of race privilege that we should all repudiate. In the meantime, I have no attention of saying it, because I don’t need to have my life destroyed, and I have no particular interest in the word anyway. Unlike all the lies we are told about white people, when I grew up, many years ago, no one I knew used it, or very few, and rarely, and my family certainly did not, because the country was not racist, not remotely like what it is accused of now.
I think it’s a prison for black people & white people, & those operating & profiting off the prison are race grifting vultures, a vapid & empty-souled “hip hop” industry, & an industry of virtue-signalling leftist whites who disproportionately occupy the DEI institutional edifice
This entire thing is not even about Black people, it’s a class war among white people with Black people used as ideological weapons by leftist whites. That’s been the story for a long time.
In my current LTC world, the reality is most of the care staff is now black and most of the long-term residents are white, especially in the Assisted Living setting, which is private pay and financed by the sale of the resident’s private home.
So I run into the situation you describe frequently.
The taboos still exist (but I don’t see it from the African immigrant care staff, only the Americans).
So, when certain caregivers report the behavior, I explain the reason for the uttering-but I must express a certain shocked outrage or risk being labeled a racist and turned into management.
Society may be changing but the hostages are still out there.
I wonder if research has been done in language without that many "taboo words", like Japanese. From my understanding, the Japanese language and culture doesn't "really" have taboo words, it's all about the context and tone of the language. A word said in one context, or even just a tone of voice, is completely benign, while in a different context is inexcusably rude and offensive.
The closest might be English loanwords, but they don't really have that "oomph" when the speaker doesn't understand what they are even saying.
DWI is the top scam in America, have you been drinking, cop said so, your drunk, how elas are we going to pay for all these 4 ton SUV's hovering on every street corner
Disagree about “inexcusable” which is buying into the whole taboo nonsense. Some out of control kid, with no parents around to control or discipline him, was rummaging through this woman’s stuff, while she’s a single mother out with her child in a public place. She may be under all kinds of stress. She doesn’t look like she’s enjoying an upper middle class, comfortable life. She’s not a “Karen.” Her irritated outburst was indeed excusable, and the type of consequences you say should be applied to her, such as having her work impacted by it, are far too excessive.
I don't know if I'd call it "excusable" as much as I'd call it "understandable." She was angry and flustered. We say things in anger we wouldn't otherwise say, sometimes. But it's just words.
Perhaps the getting downgraded to the night shift by her boss is too much. Either way - the point is the consequences this Omar fellow clearly wished to mete out on Shiloh are obviously wildly, massively, psychotically disproportionate and ridiculous - and it's good this happened to stop it. And perhaps it will mean something, in the end!
I will stick with excusable. Meaning, she should not be punished for it.
The idea that millions of people because of their skin color may not pronounce a two syllable word whereas the people to whom the word historically applied may sling it around however they want, is a bizarre form of race privilege that we should all repudiate. In the meantime, I have no attention of saying it, because I don’t need to have my life destroyed, and I have no particular interest in the word anyway. Unlike all the lies we are told about white people, when I grew up, many years ago, no one I knew used it, or very few, and rarely, and my family certainly did not, because the country was not racist, not remotely like what it is accused of now.
I think it’s a prison for black people & white people, & those operating & profiting off the prison are race grifting vultures, a vapid & empty-souled “hip hop” industry, & an industry of virtue-signalling leftist whites who disproportionately occupy the DEI institutional edifice
This entire thing is not even about Black people, it’s a class war among white people with Black people used as ideological weapons by leftist whites. That’s been the story for a long time.
Thank you for this.
In my current LTC world, the reality is most of the care staff is now black and most of the long-term residents are white, especially in the Assisted Living setting, which is private pay and financed by the sale of the resident’s private home.
So I run into the situation you describe frequently.
The taboos still exist (but I don’t see it from the African immigrant care staff, only the Americans).
So, when certain caregivers report the behavior, I explain the reason for the uttering-but I must express a certain shocked outrage or risk being labeled a racist and turned into management.
Society may be changing but the hostages are still out there.
I wonder if research has been done in language without that many "taboo words", like Japanese. From my understanding, the Japanese language and culture doesn't "really" have taboo words, it's all about the context and tone of the language. A word said in one context, or even just a tone of voice, is completely benign, while in a different context is inexcusably rude and offensive.
The closest might be English loanwords, but they don't really have that "oomph" when the speaker doesn't understand what they are even saying.
Looking forward to your essay on the footnote.
Thank you, Doc. Well done.
Hendrix is the White people's Rosa Parks except her action was organic and not staged
DWI is the top scam in America, have you been drinking, cop said so, your drunk, how elas are we going to pay for all these 4 ton SUV's hovering on every street corner