(And what nooze network do you babble for, dopey?
I think if you turn the language into a garbled mess, your thoughts will follow. And then, maybe, the rest of your life as well. Clarity should be highly valued–and it isn’t.
So what’s wrong with this Gateway Pundit headline: Protester… Set Themself on Fire (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/protester-critical-condition-after-setting-themself-fire-outside/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protester-critical-condition-after-setting-themself-fire-outside)? And in the text,”A protester set themselves on fire.”
Great Caesar’s ghost! There isn’t even any such word as ‘themself’! And how can a protester–that is, a single one–set themselves–more than one!–on fire? Are we talking about a multiple personality here?
This is our so-called “journalists” doing this to us–addling our brains so that we can’t think straight. It’s not possible, it can’t be done, to maintain a republic inhabited exclusively by idiots.
Make the language idiotic, and the thought processes will follow. Addle the language, addle the thoughts.
It makes me deeply ashamed of the age I live in.
I see this every day and I wonder what on earth. Shouldn’t wonder since we know they have a whole different agenda now. Not grammar, not spelling, not anythiing of importance.
Like the man who was speakiing about dogs preparing to give birth and saying “she in estrus, he in rutt” what kind of nonsense is that
Muddled speech comes from muddled thinking.
We have a generation of people who are, essentially, uneducated.
“Authorities have yet to release further details about the protester, withholding the name, age, and gender out of respect for privacy and ongoing investigations, AP reported.”
Okay, that’s fair. When you don’t know the gender, it is grammatically appropriate to use “they”.
Though it does leave one to wonder *why* they are withholding that information. I mean, they normally don’t give a rip about “respect for privacy”.
Oh… wait…
“According to Atlanta Fire Chief Roderick Smith, the unidentified individual, who had a Palestinian flag at the scene, reportedly doused themselves in gasoline and set themself on fire as an act of political protest. ”
It’s a dude, and likely an import.
There has to be a better way to conceal someone’s ID than to speak of one person as “they” or “themself.” This is language chaos and it will damage our culture.
It’s our own self-imposed Tower of Babel.