In the Atlantic piece, McWhorter noted that words “stick” when they respond to real problems. On this measure, McWhorter said, Latinx has failed:
Latinx, too, purports to solve a problem: that of implied gender. True, gender marking in language can affect thought. But that issue is largely discussed among the intelligentsia. If you ask the proverbial person on the street, you’ll find no gnawing concern about the bias encoded in gendered word endings.>>
That’s right, but to be more specific, I’d call it the bourgeoisie pseudo-intelligentsia: Upper Middle Class, perpetual student, elbow-patched assholes who never had to get up and work for a living. When you have nothing but idle time to play semantic word games in your Fauntleroy fucking head, this is what happens—the antisocial, “intellectual” equivalent to throwing rocks at cars instead of playing baseball like a normal, productive kid; producing more unnecessary societal problems so that you and your friends in “academia” can “heroically” address them and perpetuate your dipshit Social Science fields and employment.
EDIT: Sorry De La Paz if you happen to work in the Social Sciences, but I prefer Phrenology to this horse shit.
That’s right, but to be more specific, I’d call it the bourgeoisie pseudo-intelligentsia: Upper Middle Class, perpetual student, elbow-patched assholes who never had to get up and work for a living. When you have nothing but idle time to play semantic word games in your Fauntleroy fucking head, this is what happens—the antisocial, “intellectual” equivalent to throwing rocks at cars instead of playing baseball like a normal, productive kid
This deserves a poal pasta link!
I agree, but tracing it back was kind of a pain in the ass. FYI, google already has this thread indexed. The link however says that this site is unsafe. Good stuff there.
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