<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Trebuchet ms, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Speech codes are a favorite tool of the right to retain power and silence the poor, weak and different. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Except they use their power and wealth to make their speech codes into 'laws' and this is one of those moments when the poor, weak, and different are a bit sick of, to steal a phrase from that article, using 'natural politeness' to ask for some acknowledgement of their issues and being ignored as a result.<br></div><div><br></div><div>That article is spittle-flinging incoherent nonsense. It would be pure comedy if it wasn't also whipping up it's readership into a rage and telling them to buy guns and bullets.<br></div><div><br></div><div>ffs. <br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" style="" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:14:33 +0100 <b>Calvin Dodge <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com">caldodge@gmail.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div>Speech codes are a favorite tool of the Left to gain power and silence <br>the opposition. I will not comply. <br> <br><a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/06/08/more-than-ever-its-time-to-unleash-the-power-of-no-n2570188" target="_blank">https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/06/08/more-than-ever-its-time-to-unleash-the-power-of-no-n2570188</a> <br> <br>On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 7:02 PM <a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a> <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a>> wrote: <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > On 8 Jun 2020, at 9:14 pm, <a href="mailto:LsrsuitLry@yahoo.com" target="_blank">LsrsuitLry@yahoo.com</a> wrote: <br>> > <br>> >> <br>> >> On Jun 7, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@columbia.edu" target="_blank">ylee@columbia.edu</a>> wrote: <br>> >> <br>> >> But that is the issue. Why should we kowtow to people who don't understand or don't care about history and etymology? <br>> <br>> I have never considered the words you find offensive in ANY but computer context. So you want me to change my words because they offend you? Seems like PC gone mad and certainly the whole dictonary needs vetting as would the hundreds of words added every year <br>> <br>> There is also the whole issue of matriarchal and patriarchial languages, what the hell lets talk klingon. <br>> (And lest my brazon uses of a semi expletive.went unnoticed, it was deliberate) <br>> <br>> James. <br>> _______________________________________________ <br>> mythtv-users mailing list <br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <br>> <a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a> <br>> <a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette" target="_blank">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a> <br>> MythTV Forums: <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a> <br>_______________________________________________ <br>mythtv-users mailing list <br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a> <br><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a> <br><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette" target="_blank">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a> <br>MythTV Forums: <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>