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Unpopular opinion but I couldn't be more grateful for the coof era. After the lunacy that was my daughter's senior year in '21, she abandoned all plans to attend WokeU. Now 20, and thanks to education alternatives she has a FT apprenticeship paying what her friends in college hope to make two years from now. I'm eternally thankful I don't have to worry that the daughter I sent off to college will return a complete stranger. This shit is INSANE.

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Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 12, 2023

As more and more college degrees demonstrate that Credentialed =/= Educated, let alone Smart, employers are starting to seek out Good People and teach them how to do the job. This reduces or, in many cases, eliminates debt and, instead of being surrounded by bunches of 20-something Children, they're surrounded by adults who don't truck with lazy, entitled know-it-alls fighting for social justice at the office ("Millennial White Paper" was submitted by a few Children at my last stop (where Mrs. Pi still works).

A more complete transition won't occur until SCOTUS revisits Griggs vs Duke Power (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/) and formally recognizes an employer's authority and judgment in making hiring decisions that are in their own best interest.

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Employers increasingly are asking job candidates NOT to list their higher ed credentials. Will be interesting to see where that leads.

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Surprising but can kinda confirm. The company my daughter works for sought her out because of her affiliation with Praxis, her apprenticeship program. She hadn't even applied. She said in one of her interviews they mentioned being frustrated with "professional students."

Pretty encouraging 🤷‍♀️

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Aren't credentials now seen as warnings and indicators of indoctrination status?

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Jan 13, 2023·edited Jan 13, 2023

Depends. My current employers (whom I've been with since 4/22) were looking for someone with my modest degree. However, if I was still cooking, I'm sure my lack of degree would be catnip nowadays. Even in '20 when a gap in finances drove me to applying again, managers seemed more interested to talk to me than they had for a decade before when they were passing over seasoned cooks for their buddies from the trade schools.

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Congratulations to you for raising a daughter with initiative. In addition to pay and having a new woke child in 4 years (tears!), she is also not saddled with student debt and the loss of 4 years' pay. Unless you are getting a degree in actual an actual science (engineering, medical, physics...) college is largely useless. College is no longer even a tool to weed out the dumb.

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I always said just the opposite until my kids went to college. What a waste of time and money!

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Even back 40 years ago (gulp), college felt like a joke. If you have to force students to come to your lectures and a student can carry 18 credit hours, work 35 hours/wk and still party on the weekends (or more) then it is not the most rigorous situation. If you have to explain a programming language to your professor who is teaching it, there might a problem. If the kid comes back dumber than when you sent them off... you get the pic. Gone are the days when you held professors in contempt for the undying love for John Maynard Keynes. God knows what nonsense is going on now. I pity parents or children shelling out enough cash to provide a hefty down on a moderate house.

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The long term benefits of the regime heaping up all of their credibility in a big pile and setting it on fire will probably be worth the short term pain it caused.

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They still have a predatory online degree program for social work that puts students into debt. But they stopped using a word, that will fix everything!

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It is because they care. You will feel better about your indebtedness. Gosh Tovarisch, quit hating puppies.

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And right here you have found the reason for all the madness. Distract, distract, distract.

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Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 12, 2023

Yet they have no qualms soever about stating the rly moot ↓↓ 😉

🗨 ...and immigrant workers that are not benign. [last line in screenshot]

Gotcha! Or is it Betcha!? Can't decide, must be both 🤣

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What if you're just a normal, prize winning farmer, and you're out standing in your field? Should you go inside?

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i think it probably means you're a racist.

also, i think that maybe "go inside" is a microaggression against the homeless.

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Microaggressions - is there anyone they can't offend?

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I’m a short person - your saying ‘micro’ is offensive!

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But it was only a _little_ offensive...

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Ha! Perfect!

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🤦‍♂️

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I'm a fat person, are you saying my being "macro" means I can't be aggressed upon?

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It does offer a certain level of protection against the micros, yes.

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Do I have to cancel my subscription to Field & Stream?

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Practicum & Stream? uugh. awful

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Asking for a friend, of course.

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Not a racist.

A white supremacist. Because everyone "knows" that "people of color" aren't farmers.

/sarc

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Sexist and abusive.

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No 'probable' you absolutely are a racist.

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normal = hateful normativity

prize-winning = hateful exceptionalism

farmer = something something stolen land

field = the thing in the article

should = prescriptive morality

go inside = anti-unhomed hate speech

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Pleased to note you are adding linguistic coaching to your CV. Perhaps you can help me address my lack of fluency in woke-speak.

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I've stopped doing jobs I despise.

Besides, there's absolutely no shortage of instructors out there, and they're all younger, better colored, and willing to work for lower wages than me.

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Yes - But are they "experts"?

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Oh, well. I'm the only true expert.

But I'm far too modest to wield that kind of power.

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The true offense is in being normal. The foundational crime.

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My question exactly, being the child of normal, prize winning farmers. Okay, they never won any prizes. They just swallowed a lot of dirt and spent a lot of time trying to keep old machinery running to work said [unspeakable vulgar swear words].

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Best thread in a long time

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Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 12, 2023

Look I’m just gonna say it like it is, these people are fuckin morons.

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They are indeed. And the best response is to point and laugh and tell them they're morons.

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Morons in their FIELD of work

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About a year or so ago, Alex Jones had a guest on that was talking about this. I guess changing the language was a technique that was used by the Marxists/Communists in Russia.

We're being taken over and people don't even realize it.

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How is one supposed to discuss physics without the word “field”? Is it now the search for the unified practicum theory? In sci-fi, will the Captain of the spaceship now yell, “engage the force practicum!” to protect the ship from attack? It’s so nuts.

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has anyone considered how difficult this will make it for the agriculture school?

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Or the baseball team.

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Somehow changing the Costner movie to :Practicum of Dreams" doesn't have the same ring to it....

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Jan 12, 2023·edited Jan 14, 2023

Left practicum, Center practicum, and Right practicum?

Outpracticumers and inpracticumers?

It's hard work being antiracist these days!

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Oh, god, I’m laughing out loud at this....

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What about FOOTBALL????

Jesus. We've got a real problem here.

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Not to mention all the racist connotations of the word "foot".

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This I find refreshing, because of my recent amputation I prefer the singular to the plural.

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My hand is definitely feeling triggered af by this sentence. And my foot is feeling triggered by a couple of things:

1. the use of quotations around the word "foot" - what are you implying?

2. my foot identifies as feet/feetsies

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Jan 13, 2023·edited Jan 13, 2023

only if said foot should be in one's ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1CuACuEOM

Adding: How did they let this go on? Sounds racist.

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What about for Hockey played in grass?

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"Unified Practicum Theory"

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How is one supposed to be a mime without the world "field" they are pretending to be caught in a force "practicum?"

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Hahahaha - love those new MEOWITZERs on the field of battle. Also, I think the USC Athletic Dept may have something to say about this. I expect they bring in more cash than the Social Work Dept does, so they might just "field" this one for us :)

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But seriously. A while back somebody I know remarked to me that he didn't see many African-Americans in the smaller town of France while traveling. I told him that if he had, they would probably have been African-Frenchmen. The point being that in his mind, a term that was specifically chosen to emphasize a cultural trait had simply morphed into a synonym for "black". That's a problem with trying to change language to affect the way people think -- you can change the words, but people still perceive objective reality.

If these yahoos got their way and the word "field" became verboten, then a generation from now people would be talking about how slaves toiled in the practicums of the south. And then what would we do to avoid offending anybody?

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True story: one Olympics a bunch of years ago, the Winter Olympics IIRC, a "dark-skinned" Frenchwoman did something no "dark-skinned" Frenchwoman had ever done in an Olympics. The idiot broadcaster remarked that "so-and-so is the first African-American woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal for France". Or something to that effect.

Leftists and Liberals are f'n infantile idiots.

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On similar lines, a Canadian athlete with a dark complexion was asked a question by a US journalist about his being the first African-American athlete to do something or other. The fellow responded in puzzlement, “I’m Canadian.”

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Blacks don't mind being called Blacks. We have a good friend who happens to be American Indian. He said this "Native American" shit is shit; that they prefer the name Indian.

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See also LatinX. I pronounce it with only two syllables, rhymes with _lynx_.

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Now you have something in common with Joe Biden!😂

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Pretty sure applications, etc., don't say "Native American", because technically I'm a native American (born in upstate NY). They don't want to give ME any benes. They say "American Indian". IIRC.

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Hmm. I’m behind enemy lines in Ithaca NY. Love the state. Really done with the wokeness and the totalitarian tendencies.

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Yeah, I'd love to love NY again, but its Regime has made it impossible for years now.

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@Peter and Ginger- Daughter lived in Ithaca for a year. VERY woke. Yikes. Nice place but dang....

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actually there is an interesting division-- the hair-on-fire woke, BLM, transgender, woke locals, and then there are the local rural folks (almost all red-pilled), plus the hippie enclaves who are basically sweet, and the closet conservatives who are ecstatic when they discover our book. But mostly, we don;'t promote COVID-19 and the Global Predators locally, ha!

Seriously though, the toughest issues are the state level issues that filter down, like all the testing/masking mandates still in place for healthcare facilities, the state taxes (yikes!), the totalitarian bent of the new governor, the wokeness driving bad policies in Ithaca and in large cities like NY city.

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@Peter and Ginger- daughter is a Headstart director in the Buffalo area and they still have to wear masks! It's ridonkulous.

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@Andrew- where in Upstate NY? I'm just north of Niagara Falls, a mile from the Tuscarora Reservation.

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Born in Syracuse, lived in Chittenango in the early/mid '60s, then "downstate" for 3 years in Rockland County, then back to a 'burb of Syracuse, then Rochester 'burbs for high school.

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@Andrew- spent a lot of time in Rochester as a kid. Small world.

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umm, “...School of Social Work”

Using her think, shouldn’t we also eliminate the word “work”...seems like all the freed slaves out there would be offended equally by field or work.

Also, regarding yesterdays air industry mayhem du jour, I hadn’t realized they changed the meaning of the acronym NOTAM. It was Notice To Airmen. Apparently in December 2021 that meaning was deemed not inclusive and was changed to Notice To Air Missions. That realllly made flying safe for all!

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homework would be even more offensive, as it's offensive to both the unemployed and homeless at the same time.

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Next issue to tackle for The Big Butte: Racist Roads!

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Think about it: white stripes and yellow stripes (white-adjacent) are superimposed over black asphalt. And of course the black asphalt is made to bear the weight of everyone rolling over it.

On the other hand, if we put in white concrete in place of black asphalt, we can then be accused of promoting the erasure of all consciousness of blackness from society.

The possibilities for offense are endless.

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That’s fatphobic! Lol

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America has jumped the shark.

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Very sadly true.

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Ain't that the truth? 😂😂

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Keep looking to the heavens for that asteroid, Mrhounddog. Next best thing to the Second Coming.

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I would prefer the Second Coming. However, I am reminded of the nightly newscaster when he said, "asteroid inbound, scenes at 11:00."

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I work in the computer field. Is that now a verboten phrase? They are beyond the point of ridiculous. Fingers crossed that this is the one the gets the normies to finally kick this insanity to the curb.

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The good news is that Stanford was so completely *ridiculed* for outlawing words such as ‘American’ and ‘brave’ that they retracted the whole proposed idea. Now *that’s* the kind of ‘cancel culture’ I can get behind!

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Did you miss when they outlawed the "master-slave" computer thingy?

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Plus in hydraulic systems like brakes and clutches.

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I’m waiting for the woke to go after the whole concept of ‘male’ and ‘female’ mechanical and plumbing fixtures. So anti-trans! So thoroughly anti-non-bipolar!

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Nope, wish I had missed it. I will, however, continue to use the master-slave vernacular :). I'm a rebel.

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I strive for masterful discourse, and am thrilled to have a master bedroom, and am glad to no longer be a slave to the kitchen, though I do sometimes slave away trying to get my words right in different applications, and I often wish to administer to a considerable number of people a purposeful caning where a little reflective pain might be useful.

Am I a bad person? Gosh I hope so. This is probably as vile as I can get without working up a sweat.

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I think we should just sit back and watch while progressives keep growing their list of prohibited words, until they are left sputtering incoherently for fear of offending somebody.

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Double Plus Good

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They'll all be Obiden! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Isn’t that what they’re doing now?

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I hate this timeline. It's the stupidest one ever.

Until tomorrow. Tomorrow will be stupider.

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Marty, the problem is that we are too nice. We must push back, firmly, but politely.

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"I'm very sorry and even embarassed, but your wokeisms really have earned you a brick in the kisser!"

That's very polite, wouldn't you say?

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Bricks are pretty 'firm',, so I'd say you're firmly within the " push,polite,firm" guidelines

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Over here, does it mean we can't quote Winston Churchill: "Never in the field of human conflict..."? WSC knew more about most things than most people know about anything...

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Yes! I’m a big fan of Winston Spencer Churchill - he earned more accomplishments by the age of 25 than most people do in a lifetime, and more lifetime accomplishments than most entire villages of people ever do!

Yet the ‘Woke’ would probably sneer that he was horrible because he objected to women getting the vote. (Well jeez, he was born in 1874...)

THANK YOU, WSC, for persevering against the Nazis!

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Churchill was a terrible man although a scathing wit, which half redeems him.

One of my favourite quotes is his "The best argument against democracy is a five minute chat with the average voter"

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Sorry, but you must not have read the same biographies of WSC as I have. Like ALL of us, he was a FLAWED human being, but he certainly was not ‘terrible’. Virtually every historian has noted that if there had to be named just one person responsible for the Allies victory over the Nazis, it was Churchill. I personally am indebted to him.

His accomplishments were astounding. He wrote dozens of books, he painted, he was multi-faceted and wise. I wish I could be 1/20th of the person he was.

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I am sure you do

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I have thought about this quite a bit over the past few years, and I agree with Winston. Women should not be allowed to vote. It would make for a different society than the one we have now.

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I think it was more the Malakand and Boer Campaigns that left a little taint of unpleasantness on Winston--and deservedly so.

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I think he left more than a taint of unpleasantness himself to anyone who hasn't got fan boy eyes for him.

But it takes a revisionist look at the history of the wars to be able to do that, so it's not easy for people to do.

For me his unpleasantness derives from knowing of his duplicity and underhandedness, similar to the British dealings with the Ukraine conflict in the current day.

I know this quote is disputed, but it sums him up.

If he didn't say it, he certainly thought it and operated from it.

"You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest".. --Winston Churchill

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WSC was just a young journalist during the Boer Wars - and then he was taken as a prisoner of war (illegally, since he was a journalist, but the Boers thought he could be an important prisoner because he was the grandson of a Duke). After he daringly escaped, he traveled alone through hundreds of miles of enemy territory, then joined up with the first British regiment he encountered, and led the rescue to liberate his old cell mates at the prison camp! This heroic deed enabled him to win his campaign for Member of Parliament- at age 26!

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I'm not so big on the daring escapes from enemy territory when the enemies are local to the place or previous colonizers you're trying to displace.

Sure--go back far enough and everyone colonized everyone else at some point--but going where you don't belong and then escaping with your life and thinking it's heroic--nah, you survived your idiocies.

I survived my idiocies on the Malakand Pass too, to be sure. But I had no controversial intent...

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My point is that WCH was in his early twenties, definitely NOT calling the shots about anything. The Malakand brutality was during Churchill’s first military post, when he was 22. Shortly thereafter, he campaigned relentlessly to be transferred to Kitchener’s regiment in Africa. But Kitchener waged a campaign against the natives that was so barbaric that Churchill denounced Kitchener and despised him forever after (which proved interesting during WW1 when they were both on the same high council).

And yeah, we’ve gotten a little off-topic...

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Perhaps the bigger point I'd like to make is most of the people who ought to be valorized are the ones whose names we never know, and taking any public figure as a hero is sort of a perilous undertaking.

Churchill needed desperately to prove himself, coming from a batshit family as he did, and that's always a bad motivation for young men with well-known names in their class.

In general running off and soldiering/putting oneself in real danger to distinguish oneself from dad leads to a lot of harm, spread widely.

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“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEU-t-ANpdY)

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Words have...er...meaning!

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My maiden name was Field; does that imply I didn't exist prior to 2001 when my to-be husband forced me to take his name?

Can I say "maiden name" or is that verboten now too?

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Yep! I was just remembering I had a great uncle, Carl Field, and aunt, Dolly Field.

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Actually, isn't this a form of microaggression against the less educated? Replacing a simple, easy to understand word with one few people outside academia know, let alone understand? What is REALLY going on here, folks?

Reminds me of the time at work when someone injured his hand while using a hand press. Now this accident would not have happened if he'd been paying attention and to this day the rest of us can't figure out how he did it. Nevertheless someone in management decided to put a warning label on the press which read something like this: "Ensure clearance before pressing." Come on now, we are talking FACTORY WORKERS here. Some can barely speak and understand simple English as it is. It would have been much more effective to put up a label that said "Keep your frickin' hands out of the press!" That I think anyone can understand.

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I think it's actually a microaggression against farmers, who tend to be conservative. The implication is that the only people who count who have ever worked in fields are blacks, as slaves.

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>> Actually, isn't this a form of microaggression against the less educated?

With no humor intended, it's the entire point.

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