What a waste of time is it to try and control the language from the left!
They’re even coming for Beyonce now.
What did she do to get over that line? She had a line in her song “Heated”, on her new album “Renaissance,” “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass.” Now, the word police didn’t have a problem with the word “ass,” or any of the other body parts or curses she used in the same song. The problem that they had was that she included the word, “spaz.”
The lyric was criticized as ableist and offensive on social media, and it even inspired an essay published on The Guardian in which writer Hannah Diviney wrote, “Beyoncé’s commitment to storytelling musically and visually is unparalleled, as is her power to have the world paying attention to the narratives, struggles and nuanced lived experience of being a Black woman… But that doesn’t excuse her use of ableist language.”
Beyoncé’s decision to remove the ableist lyric follows Lizzo’s decision to do the same. Lizzo used the same term in her song “Grrrls” off her latest album, “Special.” In the original track, Lizzo sang: “Hold my bag, bitch, hold my bag/ Do you see this shit? I’m a spaz.” The new version of the song finds Lizzo singing: “Hold my bag, bitch, Hold my bag/ Do you see this shit? Hold me back.”
Beyonce wasn’t mocking anybody’s disability. She said it was “not used intentionally in a harmful way,” but that didn’t matter. But she was willing to compromise. Variety confirmed she would be changing the term to “Blastin on that ass, blast on that ass.”
As a leftist, this constant effort to modify or ban language is seen as an insidious tactic. Rep. Kathleen Rice even said we shouldn’t use the word “abortion,” because that might have “negative” connotations. Well, killing unborn babies is negative, deeming it as a word you’re not supposed to use doesn’t change that.
What point does one stop after they have started down this road? What is the point of putting off any words that may annoy you?
It seems that it’s only for some.
Some ableist words you should probably cut out of your vocabulary…bc they’re ableist:
– Idiot/idiotic
– Crazy
– Differently abled
– Dumb
– Insane
– Lame
– Moron
– Psycho
– Specially abled
– StupidThese are just a few of the many, but there’s more. Feel free to leave your comments below.
— Becca (@BeccaBeckery) August 1, 2022
Kira Davis, Deputy Managing Editor of the magazine, responded to such insaneness.
This absurdity is a joke. https://t.co/b1FZVn4mob
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) August 2, 2022
That’s the perfect response.
Where does Orwellian attempts to limit language end?
Leftists want to make us all a part of a cult that decides what words are appropriate. It is absurd. Maybe that’s the point — to remove the ability to criticize anything that they say — so nothing can be idiotic, crazy, lame, or stupid, when so many things the left pushes are exactly that. It’s to stop the questioning of the narrative and conform. The result is chaos that causes us to lose our moorings to reality, and also makes our thoughts unreliable. Our minds are constantly conditioned to believe what is being said. Treat each other with respect and you can’t go wrong, but locking yourself into this kind of a construct is nuts.
That’s why I say no. That’s just dumb and insane.
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