The language police(men?) need to smoke a peace pipe, writes QuinHillyer.
And if you are a handicapped American who sometimes feels like you’re on the low end of the totem pole any time your department has a powwow , even if you put in more man-hours at work than anyone else while suffering doubts and even heckling from the peanut gallery , I want you to know you are on my master list of survivors I admire. You’ve figured out there is more than one way to skin a cat , and now everything in your purview is whipped into shape . Good job.With the Jan.
Well, please forgive all of us normal people who refuse to prostitute ourselves to the language police. Yes, of course language is important and of course we all should avoid rudeness. Still, it’s also long past time that people stop running around looking for a reason to claim offense, much less for third-party observers to insist everyone should take vicarious offense at language in other people’s conversations.
Some of us remain privately offended by the spelling out in print of profanities and vulgarities, which we are told shouldn’t bother us — at the exact same time we’re told we should be punished if we “misgender” and use the wrong ethnic reference for a “Latinx” biological male. Well, bleep that.
Krauthammer, a licensed psychiatrist, wrote in his answering essay called “Defining Deviancy Up” that Moynihan was correct but that the “see no evil” pose causes yet another psychological reaction in further reply. “As part of the vast social project of moral leveling, it is not enough for the deviant to be normalized,” Krauthammer wrote. “The normal must be found to be deviant.
Here's a better idea: Let’s bury the hatchets . Yes, be polite, but abide by this ancient wisdom: No offense intended, no offense taken.
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