In which J Refuses To Play Well With Others and Runs With Scissors. And perhaps ever-so-slightly exaggerates for effect. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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The BBC keeps deleting copies of this video; hopefully this one will last for a while.

That is, “when you hear these words, you know it’s safe to stop taking someone seriously”. In no particular order:

• Cis
• Male Gaze
• Intersectional
• Misgendering
• (qualifier) Justice
• Gender Binary
• Cultural Appropriation
• Woke
• Mansplaining
• Misogyny
• Heteropatriarchy
• Diversity
• Rape Culture
• Zionist
• Manspreading
• (whatever) Is A Social Construct
• Whitewashing
• Triggering
• (made-up personal pronoun)
• Privilege
• (whatever) Denier
• Disparate Impact
• Heteronormative
• Patriarchy
• Fascist
• Structural (whatever)
• Homophobia
• Inclusive
• Gender Identity
• Nazi
• Transphobia

What did I leave out?

(note that it is possible to use some of these words and phrases in a way that is not meaningless blather, but that’s not the way to bet)

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• Sustainable
• Organic
• Vegan
• Fair Trade
• GMO-Free
• Gluten-Free
• (insert latest virtue-signaling buzzword here)
• Agency
• Problematic
• No True Scotsman (fallacy most often committed by people who are accusing others of committing it…)
• Ally
• (whatever) Traitor
• Toxic (whatever)
• Voting Against Their Interests (which always means “voting against my interests”)
• The Right/Wrong Side Of History

How could I have forgotten?!?

• Dogwhistle

…and from the reliably-fucked-up virtue-signalers at boingboing

• Heterosexism
• Chauvinist

(linking to an article on an “SF” site that must come with a built-in fainting couch; seriously, the brief excerpt starts with this hilariously nonsensical statement: “the heterosexism goggles, which derange content via chauvinist interpretive paradigms”)

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Dear Democrats, you chose poorly.

A common tactic of activists opposed to US military engagement (often falsely mislabeled as ‘anti-war’) is to libellabel their opponents ‘chickenhawks’, insisting that if they’re not personally going over to fight, they lack the courage of their convictions.

So, a ‘social justice’ activist who wants the government to forcibly silence their opponents surely can’t be called a ‘warrior’. ‘Chickenhawk’ has a nice cognitive dissonance to it, don’t you think? I mean, if you’re not going to personally put a gun to my head to keep me from disagreeing with you (a proposition sure to end in prison or morgue time), how dare you demand that someone else do it for you?

Mental substitution of other C-words is acceptable, of course.

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"That's because a position that seems to have deep backing from the evidence may really just be a reflection from the echo chamber. You should be looking toward how much evidence there is for a particular position as opposed to how many people hold that position: Having 20 independent pieces of evidence that mostly point in the same direction might indeed reflect a powerful consensus, while having 20 like-minded people citing the same warmed-over evidence is much less powerful."

Oh, wait, my mistake, he was talking about liberal media bias. :-)

California drought map, one year ago:

This week:

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