Definitions for the Avid News and Opinion Reader

 I found this on the Spiked-on-line page for 18 December, 2021.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/17/no-both-sides-of-the-culture-war-are-not-as-bad-as-each-other/?utm_source=Today+on+spiked&utm_campaign=1639bf4e5b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_12_17_08_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6dc1b7df1-1639bf4e5b-99430094 

Unconscious bias: I can’t find any actual evidence.

Systemic inequality: I can’t find any actual evidence here, either.

Equity: Enforced equality with an iron fist.

Diverse: Not diverse.

Inclusive: Inclusive of different faces, not opinions.

That’s unhelpful: Shut up.

That’s problematic: No, really, shut up.

The wrong side of history: I think the calendar dictates morality.

I think you’ll find that…: I’m smug and condescending.

It really is that simple: I’m exceptionally smug and condescending.

Brave: Conceited.

Transwomen are women: Wouldn’t it be great if all this Monopoly money was real?

I’m empowered: I write about myself. And my tits.

Being woke just means being polite: Shut the fuck up, you fucking fuck.

Patrick West is a spiked columnist. His latest book, Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times, is published by Societas.

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Language: The use of

I love reading, particularly reading good columnists and blog writers.

One site I find very good is Spiked.

I can always find something entertaining and thoughtful to read and https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/16/sorry-sam-smith-but-youre-still-a-he/ is such.

I must admit that prior to a couple of days ago when I read about this pro-noun nonsense declaration I'd never heard of Sam Smith.

I still have never, to my knowledge, heard the noise he makes. Nor do I want to.

Brendan O'Neill makes a great argument why this declaration by Smith is so wrong, as is the slime by acceding to the demand.

The only point he doesn't make, and I make now, is that language (any language) is a device for communication.

The use of that language is diminished if, as with Humpty Dumpty, language can be anything the speaker wishes it to be.

Language has set meanings and while those meanings may change with the times (not always for the good - try having a gay old time nowdays) those meanings, in Sam Smith's case pro-nouns, need to be adhered to.

Of course, in Sam Smith's case I'll make an exception - I don't give a hoot whether I understand what he says or not!