Virtue Signaling Isn’t Virtuous—and Actually Makes Political Tribalism Worse
Fee Stories | 9/04/22In a speech on July 23, 2022, before the Conservative Political Action Committee, or CPAC, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced himself to the audience with the words, “My name is Ted Cruz and my pronoun is kiss my *ss.”
In 2019, the Vermont College of Fine Arts appealed to a different group. They replaced the term alumni – which is derived from the Latin masculine plural but traditionally used to refer to all graduates of the school – with alumnx. In its statement, the college said that dropping the traditional term “alumni” was “a clear step toward exercising more intentional language, which we strive to implement in all aspects of college life.”
In Ted Kennedy’s day, he’d get thrown out of yet another college for being drunk and disorderly at yet another college function.
So are they aiming to make all plurals in Latin just the word + “X”? Why not just make us learn Esparanto?
A little something for the non-
transgenders:
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I do like spending Saturdays at the library.
Oppo: “Stop . . . mmmmm stop . . it! Eventually!”
“Mr. Walrus, you are so eneergetic. . . Stop it, stud!” {pound, pound, pound… “Let go of my breasts!”}
I’m just a love machine…
Walrus: I was afraid you didn’t have this one.
I’ll have to go through my files.
Do you need a research assistant?
Well, yes actually. I could use help tracking down good pictures for the babesleaga. If you are interested.
Hey, here’s a good joke for April 1st: do an “anti”babesleaga. You know, Helen Thomas, the current version of Nancy Pelosi — real horrorshow-type stuff.
How… droll.
Oppo’s Saturday night:
“I . . .um . . . resent this, Master Oppo!”
Weird looking eyes.
About to get much weirder-looking.