ACLU: Yeah, Maybe We Screwed Up By Altering a Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quote to Make Every Reference to Women Gender Neutral
The other day, the ACLU gave us this goofy tweet:
With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, we lost a champion for abortion and gender equality. And on the anniversary of her death, the fight to protect abortion access is more urgent than ever. pic.twitter.com/vIKadIHouN
— ACLU (@ACLU) September 18, 2021
They now, shockingly, are apologizing:
Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Monday that he regretted that a tweet sent out recently by his organization altered the words of a well-known quote by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The A.C.L.U. tweet, which was sent out Sept. 18, changed Justice Ginsburg’s words, replacing each of her references to women with “person,” “people” or a plural pronoun in brackets. Justice Ginsburg, who died last year, is a revered figure in liberal and feminist circles and directed the A.C.L.U.’s Women’s Rights Project from its founding in 1972 until she became a federal judge in 1980.
The tweet by the A.C.L.U. occasioned mockery and some anger on social media from feminists and others.
“We won’t be altering people’s quotes,” Mr. Romero said in an interview on Monday evening. “It was a mistake among the digital team. Changing quotes is not something we ever did.”
The editing was part of a language jihad amongst the hyper-woke to redefine words such that “men” can get pregnant — therefore if RBG talked about “women’s” reproductive rights, she was being a bigot and needed to be corrected. Many wokesters have a Humpty Dumpty attitude towards the language: when they use a word, it means just what they choose it to mean. You can put an elephant in your fridge if you call a beer an “elephant.”
We’re headed that way. We just haven’t quite gotten there yet, as the ACLU apology shows.
For a good, balanced discussion of the issue of gender identity and language, check out Coleman Hughes’s discussion with Helen Joyce, whose recent book Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality is available on Amazon. I just ordered it on Kindle.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 9/28/2021 @ 8:58 amLiberals have a playbook. They are showing it to you every time they do something like this.
Hoi Polloi (093fb9) — 9/28/2021 @ 10:05 amWhite Obama superfans.
nk (1d9030) — 9/28/2021 @ 10:19 amThe “tranzi” movement is entirely the result of white male overachievers overdosing on porn late in life and wanting to prove they can do it again as a ‘womxn’ by overwriting their own personal save file.
In order to do this, they collude with the Criminal Organization Known as the Democratic Party to promote synergy and antisexism in personal state record-keeping, mandatory 8-hour antibullying sessions for all employees, celebrity Lifestyle Affirmation Influencers of all ages tied to that specific manufactured identity, and Active Online Hatecrime Reporting Agents for anyone who uses the wrong terms. Because the liberal Democrats find these tools useful to themselves otherwise, they support this wholeheartedly and have even put tranners on top of their victim totem pole whenever possible.
Naturally, liberal Republicans have been completely useless in sounding the alarm and protecting the innocent normal people caught up in the teeth of all of these tools, either because they themselves share the same fetishes or they’re afraid of opposing their paymasters who use those tools themselves.
Turd McDonald (978ee8) — 9/28/2021 @ 11:57 amYou really can’t satire the ACLU at this point.
Demosthenes (4cc951) — 9/28/2021 @ 12:47 pmYou mean like Carlsberg Elephant?
steveg (e81d76) — 9/28/2021 @ 2:09 pmOr Chang?
steveg (e81d76) — 9/28/2021 @ 2:12 pmIs Clinesmith doing his public service hours at the ACLU working for the digital team?
“We won’t be altering people’s quotes,” Mr. Romero said in an interview on Monday evening. “It was a mistake among the digital team. Changing quotes is not something we ever did.”
Ummm but you all did change the quote and then you personally “took responsibilty” by bizarrely blaming the digital team as if they don’t work for the ACLU thus washing your hands, digitally.
Hard to believe people still think lawyers are weasels
steveg (e81d76) — 9/28/2021 @ 2:20 pmI think glenn greenwalt’s reporting of news media spiking the hunter biden lap top story is more important.
asset (8cf2c4) — 9/28/2021 @ 2:42 pmThey’re not the only ones:
“In the examination room, Chong said, doctors and attendants should use gender-neutral terminology and avoid terms like “ovaries” and “uterus.” “You can just say reproductive organs,” she said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/health/transgender-health-care.html
If a person has an ovary/uterus, I would think they’d want their doctor to be specific on parts of their body.
Obudman (18ecb6) — 9/28/2021 @ 2:50 pmIf an elephant can get in my pajamas it can certainly get in my fridge.
lurker (59504c) — 9/28/2021 @ 3:33 pmEvery time I think we’ve reached Peak Stupidity™…. I’m surprised once again.
B.A. DuBois (80f588) — 9/28/2021 @ 4:58 pm“In the examination room, Chong said, doctors and attendants should use gender-neutral terminology and avoid terms like “ovaries” and “uterus.” “You can just say reproductive organs,” she said.”
Send in the urologists to deliver babies, while we’re at it. I mean, they went to medical school too.
JVW (ee64e4) — 9/28/2021 @ 5:19 pmI’m assuming (not an MD) that cancer in the reproductive organs is different if it is ovarian or testicular. But no. Lets keep the location a secret, not to mention the rest of the details.
steveg (e81d76) — 9/28/2021 @ 8:04 pmThere’s a licensed MD in Texas who believes in incubi and succubi as disease vectors, and hydroxychloroquine as the cure. This is tame stuff.
nk (1d9030) — 9/28/2021 @ 8:20 pm“There’s a licensed MD in Texas who believes in incubi and succubi as disease vectors, and hydroxychloroquine as the cure. This is tame stuff.”
WELL, WHATEVER…CRAZY STUFF…BUT…DIDJA HEAR ABOUT THIS RANDOM CRAZY DUDE WHO NEEDS CANCELING???
nk always reliable to take attention away from high-profile nationally relevant precedent-setting news concerning long-standing leftist legal organizations that affect everybody with low-profile distractions that affects nobody.
Depend on the lawyer to be the biggest water carrier, deflector, and social apologist for high profile degenerates trying to get away with past crimes by changing public records and public language. “Well, the money they didn’t spend on taxes, family or useful life projects has to go somewhere, might as well be me!”
APLU (62e901) — 9/29/2021 @ 7:36 amCanadian bacon is ham. I was talking to Obudman at 10 and steveg at 14, about the NYT story, not to some creepy VPN creepazoid about the main post.
nk (1d9030) — 9/29/2021 @ 8:13 amNow, it is quite possible that the “King’s woman” who gave Mr. VPN his herpes (or was it gonorrhea?) was actually a guy dressed up as a woman but it don’ consarn me none, and I don’t think it’s much of a national problem either. Or for Mr. VPN, for that matter, as long as he sticks to dating the widow and her five daughters.
nk (1d9030) — 9/29/2021 @ 8:50 am17, 18.
Ah, so nk’s one of those Irony Lefists*.
*DEFINITION: Irony leftists (ie, bog-standard liberals who engage in the occasional forced homophobia when out of earshot of other liberals) will pretend to be extremely cool and not mad with normal people jokes while they word search your profile to see if you said anything too risqué about protected classes. Ha ha we love being irreverent – but no seriously guys, misogyny is very serious…
Also, they throw around terms like ‘creep’ and ‘freak’ like women to avoid having to engage with inconvenient ideas. Probably because those are the words they hear from women most often.
Stavros Halkilias (4e31d5) — 9/29/2021 @ 1:23 pmIf everyone, man and women, are telling you you’re a creepy freak maybe the problem is you.
Time123 (213142) — 9/29/2021 @ 1:52 pmI worked for a very high level pediatric oncologist who gave me a gift at the end of the project.
Steveg (e81d76) — 9/29/2021 @ 11:39 pmA collection of books by Edgar Cayce. I put one of them under my pillow but all I got was a sore neck