Berkley to cease using gendered language like "manhole"

[The Sherpa Empire]

Who fucking cares? They're not banning the words from being used by private citizens or businesses.

[Nova Cyberia]

CULTURAL MARXIST GANG
CULTURAL MARXIST GANG

hell yea dude we're gonna turn everyone gay, non-binary and communist

Yeah I'm not sensing an actual argument being made here

Because there isn't. It's just shitposting.

[The Black Forrest]

Meh.

Non-issue.

How are you hurt by this?

[Nova Cyberia]

Meh.

Non-issue.

How are you hurt by this?

I'm not.

I just find it funny.

[Liriena]

CULTURAL MARXIST GANG
CULTURAL MARXIST GANG

hell yea dude we're gonna turn everyone gay, non-binary and communist

Yeah I'm not sensing an actual argument being made here

Cultural marxism is an argument in and of itself :dab:

In all seriousness, tho, why are you using an anti-semitic conspiracy theory as an argument?

[Purgatio]

Meh.

Non-issue.

How are you hurt by this?

Replacing all those terms in municipal codes is likely to cost at least some money. So taxpayers will have the privilege of knowing they paid to have 'gendered language' erased, wasting money on a non-problem

[Ors Might]

Question, if the terms manpower and manhole are no longer being used in reports, why was it indicated that terms like human effort would still be used? Seems somewhat contradictory. Maybe I’m reading a bit into it?

[Scomagia]

Seems about as dumb as those radfems who call themselves wymyn.

[Purgatio]

Yeah I'm not sensing an actual argument being made here

Cultural marxism is an argument in and of itself :dab:

In all seriousness, tho, why are you using an anti-semitic conspiracy theory as an argument?

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

[Liriena]

Meh.

Non-issue.

How are you hurt by this?

I'm not.

I just find it funny.

We live in a brave new age of Newspeak where words that no one outside of the Berkley City Council was offended by previously must now be limited

Hilarious

[Pacomia]

Man, it's a wild ride today, with Baby Shark, and now this...

Political Correctness is just Newspeak. Change my mind.

[Liriena]

Cultural marxism is an argument in and of itself :dab:

In all seriousness, tho, why are you using an anti-semitic conspiracy theory as an argument?

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

tfw you don't even understand your own dog-whistles

Please, tell me what exactly you think "cultural marxism" means.

[Kowani]

Meh.

Non-issue.

How are you hurt by this?

Replacing all those terms in municipal codes is likely to cost at least some money. So taxpayers will have the privilege of knowing they paid to have 'gendered language' erased, wasting money on a non-problem

I’m sure that they’ll have to pay a secretary for overtime.

[Nova Cyberia]

I'm not.

I just find it funny.

We live in a brave new age of Newspeak where words that no one outside of the Berkley City Council was offended by previously must now be limited

Hilarious

I'm not seeing your point?

I didn't say anything inaccurate. The words are limited now, and won't be used in any official capacity by the City of Berkley.

Perhaps, instead of your usual flimsy shitposting and cringy shit, you could actually make a coherent argument?

No? Okay.

[Nakena]

Cultural Marxists

CULTURAL MARXIST GANG
CULTURAL MARXIST GANG

hell yea dude we're gonna turn everyone gay, non-binary and communist

No. Thats now called Globohomo.

Look it up.

[Ors Might]

I'm not.

I just find it funny.

We live in a brave new age of Newspeak where words that no one outside of the Berkley City Council was offended by previously must now be limited

Hilarious

It’s kinda funny.

Pencil pushers, a group of individuals that are ideally professional, do not strike me as the types to require purely gender neutral language in their reports. This is silly but so is any anger directed towards it. Thus funny.

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Cultural marxism is an argument in and of itself :dab:

In all seriousness, tho, why are you using an anti-semitic conspiracy theory as an argument?

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

Fearmongering over "cultural Marxism" is a tactic of white supremacists, and they always blame it on the Jews.

There are people who aren't white supremacists who use the term, but one of the main goals of white supremacists is to normalize their ideology by getting people to unknowingly adapt their dog whistles.

[Liriena]

Political Correctness is just Newspeak. Change my mind.

People who unironically use terms from Orwell's 1984 to describe contemporary political correctness are doing a disservice to Orwell, have never been anywhere near real-life authoritarianism and need to get out more. Change my mind.

[Purgatio]

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

tfw you don't even understand your own dog-whistles

Please, tell me what exactly you think "cultural marxism" means.

A liberal-progressive cultural movement seeking to upend and undermine traditional modes of being, respect for traditional culture and religion, national pride and identity, historical revisionism and postmodernism, erasing distinctions between races, nations, genders, cultures etc, as evidenced by the 'safe space' and 'trigger warning' policies being pushed for so hard in higher education.

How is that anti-Semitic exactly? I didn't mention the Jews once in that

[Liriena]

CULTURAL MARXIST GANG
CULTURAL MARXIST GANG

hell yea dude we're gonna turn everyone gay, non-binary and communist

No. Thats now called Globohomo.

Look it up.

[cries in flat earth]

[Nakena]

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

Fearmongering over "cultural Marxism" is a tactic of white supremacists, and they always blame it on the Jews.

There are people who aren't white supremacists who use the term, but one of the main goals of white supremacists is to normalize their ideology by getting people to unknowingly adapt their dog whistles.

Alot of Alt-Right and 4chan memery has gone mainstream despite the original sources already pretty much dead.

[Ors Might]

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

Fearmongering over "cultural Marxism" is a tactic of white supremacists, and they always blame it on the Jews.

There are people who aren't white supremacists who use the term, but one of the main goals of white supremacists is to normalize their ideology by getting people to unknowingly adapt their dog whistles.

Point of order, most people that I’ve heard use cultural marxism unironically typically blame liberals and lefties, not jews. I don’t think liberals and leftists are codewords for jews.

[Nova Cyberia]

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

Fearmongering over "cultural Marxism" is a tactic of white supremacists, and they always blame it on the Jews.

There are people who aren't white supremacists who use the term, but one of the main goals of white supremacists is to normalize their ideology by getting people to unknowingly adapt their dog whistles.

Now this is funny.

Anyone who isn't a Nazi who uses these terms that aren't inherently Nazi-ish is just playing into the hands of the Nazis.

Now I'm starting to understand the rhetoric, and why you lot shriek "Nazi" at anyone right of center.

[Purgatio]

Excuse me, what? I said "Cultural Marxism" I said nothing about Jews, dude. Don't read stuff into it.

Fearmongering over "cultural Marxism" is a tactic of white supremacists, and they always blame it on the Jews.

There are people who aren't white supremacists who use the term, but one of the main goals of white supremacists is to normalize their ideology by getting people to unknowingly adapt their dog whistles.

Even if the phrase comes from them, white supremacists don't have a copyright on language. When I use the phrase "Cultural Marxism" I don't mean Jews and I doubt the overwhelming majority of people understand it to mean Jews.

[Liriena]

We live in a brave new age of Newspeak where words that no one outside of the Berkley City Council was offended by previously must now be limited

Hilarious

I'm not seeing your point?

I didn't say anything inaccurate. The words are limited now, and won't be used in any official capacity by the City of Berkley.

Perhaps, instead of your usual flimsy shitposting and cringy shit, you could actually make a coherent argument?

No? Okay.

I already made an argument: this doesn't matter. It's a minor wording change in bureaucratic texts for one American city. Even as a gesture of inclusivity it's meaningless.