{"id":12982,"date":"2019-07-26T08:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:52:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:52:21","slug":"what-were-robespierres-pronouns-the-french-revolution-was-led-by-sociopaths-who-politicized-language-much-like-todays-jacobins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/what-were-robespierres-pronouns-the-french-revolution-was-led-by-sociopaths-who-politicized-language-much-like-todays-jacobins\/","title":{"rendered":"What Were Robespierre\u2019s Pronouns? The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today\u2019s Jacobins."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The French Revolution was led by sociopaths who politicized language, much like today\u2019s Jacobins. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/strong>, Opinion, by Peggy Noonan — July 25, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We often make historical parallels here. History doesn\u2019t repeat itself but it does rhyme, as clever people say. And sometimes it hiccups. Here is a hiccup. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a revolution largely run by sociopaths. One, Robespierre, the \u201cmessianic schoolmaster,\u201d saw it as an opportunity for the moral instruction of the nation. Everything would be politicized, no part of the citizen\u2019s life left untouched. As man was governed by an \u201cempire of images,\u201d in the words of a Jacobin intellectual, the new r\u00e9gime would provide new images to shape new thoughts. There would be pageants, and new names for things. They would change time itself! The first year of the new Republic was no longer 1792, it was Year One. To detach farmers from their superstitions, their Gregorian calendar and its saints\u2019 days, they would rename the months. The first month would be in the fall, named for the harvest. There would be no more weeks, just three 10-day periods each month.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is our parallel, our hiccup. I thought of all this this week because I\u2019ve been thinking about the language and behavioral directives that have been coming at us from the social and sexual justice warriors who are renaming things and attempting to control the language in America. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the latest speech guide from the academy, the Inclusive Communications Task Force at Colorado State University. Don\u2019t call people \u201cAmerican,\u201d it directs: \u201cThis erases other cultures.\u201d Don\u2019t say a person is mad or a lunatic, call him \u201csurprising\/wild\u201d or \u201csad.\u201d \u201cEskimo,\u201d \u201cfreshman\u201d and \u201cillegal alien\u201d are out. \u201cYou guys\u201d should be replaced by \u201call\/folks.\u201d Don\u2019t say \u201cmale\u201d or \u201cfemale\u201d; say \u201cman,\u201d \u201cwoman\u201d or \u201cgender non-binary.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the complete article at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-were-robespierres-pronouns-11564095088<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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