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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
I haven't cast a slur on anyone the world over. The "religious right" is a contemperarily accepted and commonly used term. If someone has a problem with it, they should take it up with 'gods' of popular culture and language, not me. I'm gonna keep on using the term when the shoe fits.
You would think religion is totally perfect and above critism the way some people take offense at any critism of it or use of the term that isn't totally pure and holy. I think if you go out looking to get offended, you will.
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More disempowering words from an Ironworker. It's always "them" not me, you or us.
What do you think I am doing? I am challenging the "generally accepted term (in America)". Where else but here? Now? If I write a song about it and it gets played all over the world then I'll deal with that in interviews. Until then, conversing on forums like this does more than enough in speaking with the "gods" of popular culture. Word of mouth. Small conversations. That is how change occurs. If you are aware of an error, and you perpetuate it, you perpetuate ignorance.
You'd be suprised what difference respecting truth and accuracy does, and realising the strength in applying an empowered decision to BE THE CHANGE you want to see.
The term IS incorrect. By all means use it though if error floats your boat. I will be using the correct definitions henceforth, no matter what medium I am using.
Truth in description seems to be optional in America. Only the other day I saw a sign in a simple Pizza shop. "Joes Pizza". At the top of it was "WORLD FAMOUS". What a load of crap. Similarly, I'm seeing countless "Gourmet" Carrot cakes in delis and service stations, wrapped in cheap plastic looking old. Again, crap. All it does is cheapen the words. It's like how if I describe someone/something as "nice" to many Ameircans I know , it can be taken as almost an insult. 'Nice" somehow no longer means "nice" in America, but bland, boring, stale, half-arsed or lame.
Wierd.
Then there is "I haven't seen him forever". Well that would mean you've never seen him dear. How about all the "free" products you pay postage and handling for, or the free trips to Florida you win, but have to pay $200 per person for. Then there's the number of Americans who will praise some subjective thing here as being the best in the world... even if they've never been anywhere else.
I'm working on maintaining a no bullshit attitude to descriptive language. People that know me, know when I say something is "nice" it's nice. If I say it's superb, it is. It allows me room to emphasise with accuracy.
If I refer to a religious right, it will be to NeoNazism that maintains Hitlers spiritual theology and political ideologies religiously.
