Why do we let these assholes change our language?

Helen Joyce has a nifty answer to that in the video I just posted in new thread.

The people who would normally say “that’s a load of bollocks” have been overcome by cowardice, largely because the position they would like to take has already been occupied by their political rivals (she talks about the far-right, but I think in the case of the SNP, for instance, it’s enough that they’re in opposition to the Tories - who are most definitely not “far-right”).

I would add that there is considerable social pressures to conform to gender ideology and accept “trans-identities”, particularly among younger people, and that social media has globalised the reach of bullies.

Joyce points out that this sort of cowardice happened before with the paedophile invasion of the gay rights movement of the 70s and 80s. The gay and lesbian activists knew the paedos were there but were scared of ousting them because it would have played into the narrative of the anti-gay rights groups. The great shame was that children were abused as a result of their inaction. Something that is being mirrored today.