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Re: Sunday, September 1, 2002
Viva la difference!, the French cliché goes. I agree with it. And I agree with you about saying "so what" to an instrument of political correction, which is what "sexist" is, regardless of its sanction by vague dictionary definitions. But I'm a word guy. I love linguistics. What I wrote this morning was mostly about words, not politics (beyond the fact that politics has made "sexism" a shitty word). I expressed my opinion on the politics of the matter when I agreed with what Glenn Reynolds said about the Left's lost sense of humor: it's really the whole Left that went wrong, shifting its focus from Abbie Hoffman's pranks to Andrea Dworkin's prudery over the course of a decade -- a decade in which, surprise, the Left lost its popular support.Of course there are a few pranks left on the Left. Michael Moore has raised them to an art form. But somehow even his fun stuff remains unpersusasive except to the declining ranks of the faithful. Which is a lot more sad than funny.
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