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The Tragedy of the Singular ‘They’

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*The Tragedy of the Singular ‘They’.*

The author is mistaken to despair. No one can force him to use singular "they", and no one can force me, or you either.

For my own views, and the solution I have adopted, see "Better Genderless Pronouns in English."

Profit-seeking from education

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*Our national and state policies [about Edtech] are designed to subsidize profit-seeking from education.*

Objection to criticizing racism

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

People who condemned anti-racist gestures by pro sports players cited various details as objectionable, but now those excuses have been stripped away. What those people object to is criticizing racism.

Don't send cops to someone having a mental crisis

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

If asked to send help because someone is having a mental crisis, the last people you should send are cops. When they don't understand, their solution is "shoot".

Stress, including being confronted by armed thugs, can make people with mental disabilities lose their capacity to understand what others are saying to them. In thug-think, that means "resisting arrest, shoot!"

Use of paramilitary forces to suppress protest

mardi 15 septembre 2020 à 02:00

*"One can draw a direct line between the [wrecker's] use of paramilitary forces to suppress protest domestically, and the tendency of security forces [sic] in foreign countries to violently suppress their own citizenry — security forces that for years have been backed, funded, trained, and armed by the United States government."*

Meanwhile, the wrecker threatens to crush protesting Americans who might disbelieve the claim, that he will surely make, to have won the election.

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