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quote Originally posted by williegoat: What I was saying is that if you object to the metaphorical use of the phrase "book burning" as "debasing the currency of the English language", then you should also be able to see how so many words and phrases that are misused by the left also make it difficult to communicate clearly and accurately. A protester is not an insurrectionist and one who literally burns down a city block is not a protester.

I have seen how the currency of the English language has been debased by those among the Left who are not consistently standing apart from and opposing all rioters, arsonists and murderers that decorate their crimes with BLM and Antifa-style flags and slogans. I condemn that when I see it. I certainly condemn the idea of that happening, although we might look at certain moments and statements from Kamala Harris (an obvious example) and disagree as to how to categorize her. But I certainly condemn the idea of politicians being the apologists and protectors of those kinds of criminals.

The tangibility and the accuracy of the way that I have categorized "one Pennock's user account in particular" as having debased the currency of the English language with profligate and indiscriminate harping on "Leftists" (etc.) to the exclusion of all other aspects of reality is beyond any shadow of doubt. It towers above the Pennock's Totally O/T landscape like the summit of Mount Everest towers above the line of demarcation that separates Nepal from the People's Republic of China.



When that is combined with a remarkably vulgar and unreasonably hostile attitude towards any other forum member that sees "it" differently (whatever the "it" that's in question) it creates a foul miasma indeed.

When you look at the words that emanate most frequently from that account, such as the uppercase BULLSHIT or BULLCRAP, and the directly accusatorial language of the messaging, and the fetish-like deployment of innumerable and conspicuously oversized images and memes, as if the undisguised purpose is to jam the signals [so to speak] of a contentious discussion using radio spectrum noise [Electronic Warfare terminology]--when you look at all that--what do you see?

I see the online messages board equivalent of a clogged and overflowing toilet.



But it could be even worse, as indeed it was for many years prior to August 15, 2020.

That's a good thing.

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"Past activities" (to quote from sourmash) can cast light, as well as shadow.

In this case, the people of Dr Seuss Enterprises have "seen the light."

quote Dr. Seuss Enterprises, working with a panel of experts, including educators, reviewed our catalog of titles and made the decision last year [2020] to cease publication and licensing of the following titles: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.

Dr. Seuss Enterprises; March 2, 2021.
https://www.seussville.com/...r-seuss-enterprises/


What freedom would remain for publishers, to decide whether to continue or discontinue the publication of their books, if it's all explained as being controlled (ala sourmash) by Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Black Lives Matter; etc?

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Most people categorize these Dr Seuss books as children's books. Some Republican legislators and office holders and their friends at Fox News and Newsmax and on Twitter and other social media platforms have been remonstrating as if these were adult level books that were discontinued. These Cancel Culture-obsessed wackos are all about politics as performance art instead of governing.

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