PRONOUNSCNN posts 2000 word guide to neopronouns and gets mercilessly mocked

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[–]xoenix 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There must be so much money floating around for propaganda they don't know how to spend it. The more they spend, the worse the quality gets and it just makes them look like fools.

I'm also guessing that these second and third generation queer activist writers never put in the hard work of defeating common sense in the first place and are all just expecting to ride the coattails of their predecessors. Meanwhile the rest of the world is finally waking up and pushing back, armed with better understanding of the issues than the activists have.

[–]iamonlyoneman 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

bro these people are unironically serious about this nonsense

[–]newguy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Only because they're getting paid to be that way, and the culture they're in is obsessed with it (also because of the money).

ESG ratings, and better blackrock/vanguard lending terms if you push certain ideologies. It's what's driving 90% of this. The "true believers" are just pawns and they don't realize it

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they've affirmed their brains into Silly Putty: it's like how the schism-happy fundies look when they scream only the 1611 KJV is divinely revealed and other translations will burn in HELL

like, it still makes complete sense to THEM, while they're repeating "Temba. his. arms. open. WIDE" at everyone real slow so they can get it: that's why it doesn't convince

[–]Femaleisnthateful 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Lol this is awesome. Can someone screenshot responses for those of us who don't have Twitter (sorry for the deadnaming)?

This Dennis Baron guy has a book with his pronouns on the cover.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You can use Nitter to see the comments without a Twitter acct: https://nitter.net/cnn/status/1690302010229198848

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I'm fairly sure they do this on purpose knowing full well how journalistically bankrupt it is.

This sort of thing generates buzz, outrage generates the most clicks, more clicks means more advertising attention, and that means more money.

I see this sort of thing all the time now, I think the news media is doing what the mobile gaming industry figured out a while ago, it is far more profitable to churn out a bunch of low quality content that is easy to make but highly addictive, even though you will alienate most of your customer base, you will get your "whales" so to speak and make more money than ever off of them especially once your factor in your lessened costs making literal garbage.

In the gaming industry it is cheap dopamine inducing games with timers and fake gambling mechanics. In media it is simply 24/7 constant outrage, and when you don't have a story? Just go to twitter, invent some outrage yourself, screencap that, and write it off as a legit article. Despite the only people who give a singular fuck about that outrage being a bunch of losers on the internet, myself included of course.

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

it's also industrial-strength psychic sublimation: I picked up on this under Obama when they didn't want to address extinct species, bailouts for only the mortgage criminals, cremating Yemen: it was just EASIER to talk about how Bo did something funny that week

they really just wanted someone who made them STOP thinking about real issues, and called that "radical politics" or whatever: that's why they only went after piddly shit like a museum not making visitors prove their ancestry before wearing a kimono (for an exhibit mocking Victorian-era weebs backed by actual Japanese-American cultural ambassadors, ironically) or having a screaming fit at their nice leftish professor and getting them fired for saying they were capable of seeing a hypothetical Halloween costume (they're Ivy Leaguers, they never technically grow up)

[–]wylanderuk 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Heh the response from the Japanese consulate was probably the politest "WTF is wrong with you fucking idiots?" I have ever seen.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

of course their spaghetti logic shifted to go "Asians in their home countries have no say in this! this is for Asian-Americans to condemn!"; when the Asian-American backers of the exhibit said they weren't offended (and more to the point that nobody wearing a kimono sent them to Manzanar when they were tots) they said only "properly educated" Asian-Americans could determine whether they were witches offensive (further raising the point that if you have to take 6 semesters of an undergraduate course to even tell if something's offensive, is it actually inherently offensive?)

also not a single one of the protesters was Japanese-American, they were Filipino and like a Dominican

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The kimono shit was hilarious for how dumb it was. I remember the people protesting it were not Japanese anyway I think they were of Chinese or Filipino descent. I wish I'd been there I'd have asked them if their opposition to the kimono is based on their racist hatred of Japan? (And well, hatred maybe justified to some extend considering how the Japanese behaved to their neighbors for the early part of the 20th century)

Funniest part was if you go to any tourist spot in Japan you'll find loads of business selling kimono or renting them for people to play dress up, and they don't give a fuck if their customers are Japanese or not cause they smartly want to make money. The real reason nobody wears them regularly anymore is frankly because they are a bitch to put on.

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yeah, they moved to goalposts to "it's about yellowface, so Japanese in Japan haven't experienced that but all Asian-Americans have": it's rationalizing, not reasoning

this full-frontal attack was nowhere to be seen when people were suspended for teaching the common phrase 那个, of course

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

那个

Now I am offended. How dare you use that sort of language here.

It's 那個 you 給 communist.

[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Everybody is cutting the cable and CNN is doomed. Ha ha ha mother fuckers. Ha ha ha.

[–]wylanderuk 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hey now neoprouns are very useful for everyday use you know...

Its great filter for annoying fuckwits, if they use them don't engage with them...Just like Mx and Mz for annoying feminists...

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I shared a class with a teacher for a term over a decade ago and I will never forget the day I was sitting marking books after school when I heard her shout “How fucking dare they!”. I looked up from the desk I was sitting at and saw that she was reading a letter, her face was tomato red and she was actually shaking a little and had scrunched the letter in her hand. She was mad.

I asked her what was wrong and she said “The called me Ms Blahblah, I’m Mrs Blahblah! I’m married to a man, I’m not a lesbian!”

I had trouble catching my breath I was laughing so hard. She actually thought that “Ms” was for lesbians and that whoever it was that wrote to her just thought she was.

Everytime I see or hear someone addressed as Ms I can’t help but chuckle a little bit

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here's part of the article if anyone didn't see it already: http://midi.moe/f/tctcw.png