RE: Re: On the "Words Matter" issue (was Re: The request of words matter updated; quotes deleted)

[zeurkous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 03:41:20 -0500, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:34 PM Bart Schaefer
> <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Thoughts and questions.
>>
>[snip]
>
> All good points and questions, but I have to point out a fact of our
> cultural zeitgeist.
>
> Today a person saying the n-word with certain skin pigmentation would
> be labelled a racist, whereas a person with a different skin
> pigmentation would have no problem. A person opining about abortion
> who happens to be male would be told to shut up, whereas a female
> never would. A woman wearing inappropriate clothes would be
> criticized, but not a trans woman. My point is that in today's society
> superficial features of your identity do matter: the color of your
> skin, your sexual orientation, genitals, etc.

Indeed, it seems that with the request that has been made of us,
identity politics have arrived here. Can we just put a dead stop to that
now, all of us, *please*?

         --zeurkous.

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