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[lanforod]

I had a very similar conversation about secretaries, but keep in mind another class of secretaries, at the highest echelons of power in the world: Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense etc.

 

Just the same as Spy Black said . 

Edited by lanforod, 04 November 2021 - 02:58 PM.

[LJ]

Presumably, the cancer is a result of COVID. 

 

No, apparently the cause was climate change.

[Nparker]

No, apparently the cause was climate change.

COVID was caused by climate change - or vice-versa. I can never remember which.

[todd]

He is a loveable character.

[todd]

COVID was caused by climate change - or vice-versa. I can never remember which.

“As Earth Warms, the Diseases That May Lie within Permafrost Become a Bigger Worry”: https://www.scientif...a-bigger-worry/

[Nparker]

He is a loveable character.

I thought that as well (to some extent) before the completely unnecessary provincial election in the midst of the pandemic in September last year. 

[todd]

I thought that as well (to some extent) before the completely unnecessary provincial election in the midst of the pandemic in September last year. 

Love and like are two different matters, I won’t be commenting any further on either.

[JimV]

I see the Amazing Invisible Woman, Grace Lore, has popped up to demand that people use correct pronouns (TC, letters, Dec 10.)  It is reassuring that she (??) is focused like a laser on issues of paramount importance to Victorians.  

[Nparker]

From now on I will refer to Grace Lore as "it".

[Mike K.]

Np, come on, that's not respectful. You can disagree with someone without denigrating them.

 

Let's all remember to rise above, take the high road, etc. Be the common sense and respectful samaritan you'd like to see more often in our society. We could really use that right now from our older demographic.

[Nparker]

Np, come on, that's not respectful. You can disagree with someone without denigrating them....

I stand by my statement. You don't have to like it. Respect is earned and Grace Lore has not earned mine.

[Victoria Watcher]

Np, come on, that's not respectful. You can disagree with someone without denigrating them.

 

Let's all remember to rise above, take the high road, etc. Be the common sense and respectful samaritan you'd like to see more often in our society. We could really use that right now from our older demographic.

 

The problem is if we do not know their "preferred pronouns" (we can't know them for everyone) and use "her" and that's not it, we are criticized.

 

So "it" might be just as offensive as "her".

 

It's all such garbage.

[Mike K.]

I stand by my statement. You don't have to like it. Respect is earned and Grace Lore has not earned mine.

 

I'm looking at it more along the lines of how you project yourself to the world, and how you want to be thought of, that was my point. You do you, for sure.

[Victoria Watcher]

I'm looking at it more along the lines of how you project yourself to the world, and how you want to be thought of, that was my point. You do you, for sure.

 

I disagree. 

 

It's the liberals that want to impose some type of new language code after thousands of years.   If someone pushes back against that rather than caving to the woke, I think that's great.

[todd]

From now on I will refer to Grace Lore as "it".

https://youtu.be/Aoj5qIZvwWA

[Mike K.]

You don't have to cave to anything. Just be respectful. Grace under pressure, as they say.

 

But I'm nobody's dad. You guys do you, just know how others who may agree with you in spirit can still perceive some of the off-side comments.

[Nparker]

You don't have to cave to anything. Just be respectful...

Repeating for those in the back of the room. Respect is earned. Grace Lore has not earned my respect; not as a person and certainly not as a politician.

[Mike K.]

Straight from the young woke playbook.

 

Be better, old man. Or the kids will be lost forever.

[Nparker]

The kids have been lost for years now. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Ridicule of the pronouns thing seems like a good idea to me.  Drive the silly idea back to where it belongs, in the garbage can.

 

We sane ones should not just politely go along with whatever new language the left wants to impose, whenever they want to impose it.

 

Case in point:

 

 

 

It appears that the debate over inclusivity in language has a new chapter after the poll by Bendixen & Amandi International, a leading Democratic firm specializing in Latino outreach, found that only 2% of the population is comfortable with using the term “Latinx” to describe their ethnicity.

 

The new poll was conducted among 800 registered Latino voters in the United States, and interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. The margin of error is 3.46%.

While the neologism “Latinx” emerged as a more gender-neutral appellation, the Bendixen & Amandi International survey found that 40% of respondents said the term “Latinx” bothers or offends them to some degree, and 30% said they would be less likely to support a politician or organization that uses the term.

 

 

https://belatina.com...dentify-latinx/

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2021 - 10:21 AM.