A reminder: “PRONOUNS” is right-wing shorthand for Fussy SJWs Who Have No Real Problems And Have Disappeared Up Their Own Navels Seeking Self-Affirmation.
It is also emphatically anti-transgender, which remains overwhelmingly anathema to conservatives.
The “PRONOUNS” dog whistle implies that today’s gender-obsessed whippersnappers are weak & spoiled and would never be strong or brave enough to defend their country.
But let’s not forget who precisely is standing in the way of transgender soldiers who actually do wish to serve.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should put your incessant complaining about trivialities in perspective.”
For the record, I’ve seen this argument directed at both the left & right.
For the left, it’s the pronoun thing. For the right, it’s being required to wear a mask at Costco.
But you need to consider these examples side-by-side to compare the frequency and the degree of the aforementioned complaints.
We’re just not seeing a whole lot of feral liberals making a scene at the Walmart when the cashier gets their pronouns wrong.
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For all of their performative outrage about “cancel culture,” most conservatives are indeed aware that deplatforming does not violate the First Amendment. If you own a TV network or a social-media site, you have every right to decide who has a voice & what they’re allowed to say.
So it certainly makes sense that Donald Trump would want to create a social media platform where he & his acolytes are free to propagate their ridiculous conspiracy theories in peace.
The only reason the Durham probe of the FBI exists is for conservative news outlets to report that There Is Definitely Something Going On That the Mainstream Media Won’t Report
NYPOST: Hillary accused of spying
NRO: The final Durham report will be damning
DM: Biden aide is in the hot seat
FOX: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT THIS
D: That’s because it sounds like a lot of hot air and wishful thinking
R: How can Democrats be so brainwashed
D: Trump’s son attended a meeting with Kremlin lawyers to collect dirt on HRC after they’d hacked US government servers
R: That’s been debunked
D: No it hasn’t
R: Plus, it is far less significant than our allegation that Obama and/or Clinton and/or Biden spied on Trump
“The solution to offensive speech is more speech, not less” is a difficult maxim to refute. But it is not without its problems, the greatest of which is that the loudest and most persistent voices invariably end up dominating the discussion regardless of empirical merit
I think some proponents of this ideology cling to a platonic ideal of the “marketplace of ideas” in which the wisdom of the masses is sufficient to separate valuable truth from deceit & chicanery.
This does not appear to be how it works in the real world.
We have similar ideals in our discussions of the economic “free market”, but when, say, Jimbo’s Mom & Pop Shop goes head-to-head with Jeff Bezos’ Half-a-Trillion-Dollar Electronic Megamall it’s not exactly going to be a fair fight