Truth as a Cultural Casualty

WHAT WE HAVE HERE is a failure to communicate. A refusal to tell the truth. Namby pamby politics prevails across the land.

Liberals no longer call themselves "liberals". They now use the term "progressive", because they are afraid of the word "liberal", due to the effectiveness with which conservatives have demonized it.  The terms "liberal" and "conservative"  were invented to be descriptive in a general way. They seem to work well enough. We might as well keep using them.

Listening to mitt romney and his running mate ryan talk about social security, medicare, and medicaid  reveals that they both would like to eliminate all three, but do not want to commit political suicide by directly advocating elimination.

so they play this "reform" game. Hell, stand up and tell the truth, boyz!

Is there a christian in america who really wants religious diversity in america? wouldn't they all prefer that we all were christian?  to retain social credibility, street cred, it is necessary in america to either openly expouse a vastly diverse society, or to quietly accept it. to speak out against cultural diversity is to lose mucho political points n' street cred.

so we all publicly expouse the virtues of our diverse american society, with all the different religions, skin colors, political beliefs, because its politically correct to do so. at least we feign open mindedness.

so now brilliantly creative people are starting to use the word "gay" to mean, boring, lame, geeky, uninteresting, as in, "this party is sooooo gay".....

so now the government has produced a radio commerical urging good americans, when they hear the word"gay" abused in this way, to stand up, speak out, outsmart, and generally upbraid the offender.  

Say what? Are you serious?

Using the word "gay" to mean "boring" is abuse, but using the word "gay" to mean homosexual isn't? Escuse me?

maybe we should dig out the old word "homosexual", dust it off, and return the word "gay" to its original meaning, which was quite good enough, and just leave it at that.

Maybe if a few bold interpid pioneers stop playing games with the truth, the rest of us will follow, like the pioneers going west...

Bb

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