We recently discussed the decision of schools to stop using the gender-neutral term “alumni” to combat sexist language. That controversy came to mind yesterday when Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., altered the traditional ending of “amen” for a prayer before the House of Representatives. Instead, he ended with “Amen and awoman.” This minor controversy raises a broader point as we change or bar common terms that are not gender specific.
First for the obvious. Amen is not a reference to males. Originating in Hebrew texts, it means “So be it.” Presumably, as an ordained United Methodist pastor, Cleaver knows that. Nevertheless, the importance of making the correction seemed greater than being right.
This is precisely what we have been encountering on campuses. In the controversy over the term “alumni”, the same logic controlled. One of the schools,Vermont, first stated that it wou;ld only tolerate “non-binary, gender-neutral” terms. It then admits that “alumni” is gender neutral and is “inclusive of male and female.” Yet, it still states categorically that it “adheres to an outdated, limited concept of gender.” No explanation was given how it adheres to gender bias as a gender neutral term. The school simply declared “we see you. We value you. With this change, we recognize the importance of language and its ability to empower those who have come through our VCFA programs.” Yet, it ignored the actual language and only empowers to the degree that it replaces a gender neutral term with a gender neutral term.
As discussed earlier, the language changes is is reminiscent of our own debate at George Washington over the use of the Colonials as a moniker. The student organizers asked “When we talk about the Colonial in history, what does it mean? And is that really what we want our school identity to be?” The emphasis however is the history of colonialism in the world, not the Colonial as a term in the United States. Just as we strive to understand the meaning and traditions of other countries, there should be a modicum of effort to recognize our own meanings and traditions. The Colonials fought against foreign rule. They were not advocates of colonialism. For those interested in GW, that is part of understanding our history and our values. It simply does not matter that the Colonials were anti-colonialism. The victory is pretending that they are something that they were not and then changing the term to reject a falsely claimed meaning.
It is not clear if Cleaver thought he was complying with new House rules under Speaker Nancy Pelosi on sexist language but those rules address gender-specific pronouns and terms such as “man,” “woman,” “mother” and “son.”
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It literally is an acknowledgement that the word contains three letters , men.” At its face value it is complete insanity. You shall not utter a term if it contains ANY reference to the male gender unless you also invoke a term that references the female gender. If you follow the slippery slope it leads to a world where the mere presence of a male will be intolerable in a public space. Don’t claim to be a progressive when you promote policies that lead to regressive results.
What this really exposes is a policy that intends to usurp an imaginary barrier between a female and power, societal power. Our laws contain ZERO regulations on gender in regards to obtaining political power. In fact, our laws contain zero regulations with regards to gender for obtaining any position in any field, politics or otherwise.
it is simple fact that our foundational laws contain artifacts that seem to promote only one gender. It is likely that some of the men who wrote those laws intended that they apply only to men. Yet, look at the final result… the freest nation on Earth. So, while they didn’t include artifacts representing the female gender they also did not explicitly exclude the female gender. The foundational idea is that ALL HUMANS are free to pursue happiness.
My point is that when you acknowledge a term as offensive because it contains a referential artifact of gender you are practicing exclusion not inclusion. Don’t regress.
This was just silly. Who does this?
CRAZY ppl, that’s who.
It’s like dumping extra gasoline on the fire, bc ‘Why Not’?
“NFL FIXES GAME”
“NFL world calls out Eagles head coach Doug Pederson for epic tank job”
Embattled head coach Doug Pederson and the Philadelphia Eagles entered Sunday’s season finale against the Washington Football Team with a 4-10-1 record and completely out of the NFL Playoff race. Apparently, Pederson took that to heart during the game in front of empty seats in Philadelphia. The tank job was on in every possible way. A day that started with former No. 2 pick Carson Wentz reportedly set to request a trade culminated in Doug Pederson replacing Jalen Hurts with Nate Sudfeld at quarterback. This is an actual thing that happened during an ugly 20-14 loss that helped hand the seven-win Washington Football Team “earn” the NFC East title. By virtue of this loss, the Eagles will be selecting No. 6 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft. More than anything else, that’s why Doug Pederson decided to pull the epic tank job.
– Vincent Frank
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“DEEP DEEP STATE FIXES ELECTION”
President Trump won 2546 counties while Joe Biden won 739.
President Trump won Gallup’s Most Admired Man while Joe Biden was completely off of Gallup’s radar.
Vote counting stopped at 10 PM in 6 key states while unauthorized and secret counting without observers continued – “suitcases” full of “ballots” were pulled out from under tables; counted and recounted.
On American television screens, votes went backwards, Trump votes were reduced in number as Biden votes increased in number by the same amounts.
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WWGWD?
What Would George Washington Do?
What did George Washington do?
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
The NFL has up to 200 million pairs of eyes viewing game and the NFL employs instant-replay for review and further review.
The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs) “count” (i.e. tamper with and corrupt) the votes in secret and in the dark of night, and no replay or review is allowed and no records of vote counts are kept.
‘Pantifa/bLM Balt./DC branches are already busing people in to disturb January 6th. Orders given to dress like “MAGA” blend in cause trouble especially around cameras. At night arson has been ordered. All to be blamed on Trump supporters attending.’
It is Antifa/BLM instigating, assaulting, attacking peaceful people on the street.but the media won’t report it.
Shakespeare too
“Considering the violence, misogyny, racism, and more that we encounter in Shakespearean texts, we offer up the notion that we can open our minds and classrooms to texts that celebrate the voices and lives of marginalized people, speak to the students in front of us, and reflect a better society.”
https://disrupttexts.org/2018/10/25/5-disrupting-shakespeare/
Who is Disrupt Texts?
“ #Disrupt Texts is a crowdsourced, grass roots effort by teachers for teachers to challenge the traditional canon in order to create a more inclusive, representative, and equitable language arts curriculum that our students deserve. It is part of our mission to aid and develop teachers committed to anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices.
Yes, odd how they can go from “affirmative action” to “book burning”, so fast that no one notices.
From “flatten the curve”, to “on the ground, hands behind your back”.
From “marriage equality”, to “police arrested the man for a tweet that was deemed hateful”.
This has been the case in Democrat Headquarters, The People’s Republic of China, for centuries.
China’s release of the weapon of mass destruction, “China Flu, 2020,” was conducted to help Biden/Horiss, end Trump’s term and establish eternal global hegemony of Chinese communism.
Jack Ma is running for his life, allegedly.
The Chinese communists allow billionaire capitalists, until they don’t.
I refuse to accept Joe Biden’s federal mask ‘mandate.’
No ‘man’dates! No ‘women’dates! Kamala said she wants “Fweedom”……
Turns out she’s a plagiarizer just like her running mate.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-mlk-plagiarism
That controversy came to mind yesterday when Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., altered…
Rep. Ewomanuel Cleaver
FTFY
Just the kind of FOOL whom Pelosi & sycophants would select to give an invocation. And … no … I would NOT resume that he knows the true meaning of “amen.”
It seems at least some Methodists have gone ‘woke’ instead of Wesleyan.
“amen (interj.)
Old English, from Late Latin amen, from Ecclesiastical Greek amen, from Hebrew amen “truth,” used adverbially as an expression of agreement (as in Deuteronomy xxvii.26, I Kings i.36), from Semitic root a-m-n “to be trustworthy, confirm, support.””
Makes him look foolish to skew Amen this way.
He forgot to say “A-they.”
Too noninclusive. He should have said A-blackpeople, just like we are supposed to say Black Lives Matter but can’t say All Lives Matter, and must allow a quota of Oscars and university seats to go to black people regardless of merit.
CTHD comments on this site that race is a fiction, or social construct, with no basis in biology. But who are these social construct lives that are supposed to matter?
A record number of Black social constructs were shot dead in Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia last year. But they don’t matter. CNN won’t discuss them. In places like that every night is Purge Night.
This post is perfect for outing all of the TT’s (Turley Trolls) here.
They’ve got no defense of Cleaver’s idiotic “Awomen” BS, so they all just vent like the spoiled little nimrod Buttercups that they are.
TT’s with severe late stage PTS. And they still have all of their participation trophies proudly displayed in their rooms.
I looked up TT’s with severe late state PTS. It’s cross-referenced in the DSM under “TDS.”
Nimrod buttercups are also cross-referenced under TDS. Psychology is making progress.
“Snowflake” is the conventional term for the early-stage victim of TDS,
Oh, ny … Rhodes has gone off the deep end!
By Turley Trolls, you mean the people pointing out the fact that he seems to be purposely ignoring the biggest story at present minus a short tweet, the day before a major election?
Oh but a House rep said “A-women”, yeah that’s really big news. The shot heard round the world on that one…
“We are 2 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Karl Marx
this little word stunt was attention seeking behavior, childish, and an insult to both the English language and Christian tradition, all at once
Saloth Sar
Sex: male and female. Gender, including physical and mental (e.g. sexual orientation) attributes: masculine and feminine, respectively. And a trans (i.e. state or process of deviation) gender spectrum, too. Semantic games, cultural appropriations, political congruence go hand in hand and have progressed with a conflation of sex and gender, and notably the wicked solution. Also, baby and fetus, where the latter technical term of art is used to socially distance technicians, abortionists, and activists alike for the sake of social and medical progress and profit.
The whole thing is a sick sad joke anyway. From the start they took a sexist word and used it to replace gender and non gender specific words readily available with a worse form of sexism. Using an example A Senator or a Representative became a Congress PerSON. How illiterate is THAT? From there it went down hill into the land of iliteracy.
This half-wit is supposed to be actual minister and he doesn’t know what ‘amen’ means?
What a disgrace to any church or legislature. Next thing he will worrying about Guam tipping over.
These are the people who make laws.
His own self-laudatory web posting shows he is nothing but a political hack! City council, mayor, USA House of Representatives. Not as bad as biden for lifelong on-the-taxpayer-dole, but he is working at it.
“Presumably, as an ordained United Methodist pastor, Cleaver knows that”. I think that your presumption is wrong. Cleaver has the brain of a bird, probably worse. He is a an ordained fool who once again gives us an example of the great “American Education System” . But on second thought it maybe is an affirmation of the system. He then graduated to the House of Representatives where there are many similarly “qualified” fools who usually “speak out of the wrong end of their bodies”. Lets see what pearls of wisdom has to offer for the future???
He is another D political hack! Rewarded by pelosi et al. by giving an “invocation” – a political speech. Sidk!