Rewriting, Washing, Scrubbing American Culture

Are you suggesting we're the cultural left? If so, where's my salary? I'm not doing it for free.

 

I wouldn't dare categorize anyone 'round here. I was just pointing out a hazard to someone put off by certainty about them (whoever they may be).

Y'all need a better union.

 

1. OK.

2. Wouldn't that be viewed as disingenuous? Do you have a change-up pitch?

 

Something else to consider in the "rewriting" of American culture ...

While taking the dog [/crosssthread] on walks through the neighborhood, we often go down a street that has one of those free library "bookhouses" in front of it. You know: take a book, leave a book, unload some old magazines, etc.

Anyway, I took a book that's relevant to this thread -- a volume in the Boston Publishing Company's series, "The Vietnam Experience," published in 1984. It's the one titled "A Nation Divided" about public support, opposition, protest and coverage of the war.



What's interesting is how, just in the last 39 years (and certainly the last 50 to 60 years, when the Vietnam war was happening) our terminology has changed so much. The language was still so masculine in the early to mid 1980s. Terms like spokesman, newspaperman, and the use of he/him for an anonymous person are used throughout. Although they're not necessarily in this Vietnam book, the terms for job titles were different, too: stewardess, postman, fireman, waitress.

No one gave those words a second thought then. Almost no one still uses them now.

 

I can't believe the left let language come to this.

 

You go, gurl!

 

Repeating myself, but acceptability is always time and temperature, as is all change. And to add to that, there’s no progress without change. And just to be clear, I’m not speaking of climate... more like zeitgeist.

 

People have been writing and talking about those words since the 1950s, at least. Folks just like to forget they did to make a point sometimes.

 

So the 'new cultural left' is responsible for the idea of treating everyone with the same level of respect we used to reserve for white, straight men?

Cool.

 

Chattanooga Lookouts shirt removed from website after fan posts video complaining of racial slur

 

the new cultural left - rewriting, washing and scrubbing - strikes again

‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

 

The switch has been flipped to "maybe it shouldn't."