A man who threatened to bomb the offices of the Merriam-Webster dictionary publisher has been arrested and faces five years in jail for making a terrorist threat.
We are told he was enraged by the Merriam-Webster definitions of “girl” and “woman” (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/merriam-webster-threats-lgbtq.html). In the first nooze story I read, the “reporter” forgot to tell us what those definitions were. But I found them in the next story.
Merriam-Webster now defines female as “having a gender identity (?) that is the opposite of male.” It seems they have “updated certain definitions” to be more inclusive, blah-blah.
We don’t deal in bomb threats here, but we don’t deal in crapola, either. All that “identity” business is pure crapola. If you “identify” as Napoleon Bonaparte, does that make you Napoleon Bonaparte? Uh… If you can get a dictionary to say you are? Would that make it official?
Someday, I pray, those editions of the Merriam-Webster dictionary will exist only as historical relics of a time when America went collectively insane.
Meanwhile, you can’t go around threatening to kill people just because they’re idiots.