We Laugh, They Rule | Sohrab Ahmari | First Things
The absurd regime of woke-ism, with its linguistic mutilations and stark denials of reality, might just consolidate and extend its rule, notwithstanding our confidence that reason must break through and awaken the people. As Adrian Vermeule quipped on Twitter, People who ve watched the absurd Latinx be normalized and propagated, in real time, by multiple elite institutions are shocked by Awomen. Coming to your dictionary soon!
Indeed. Tellingly, the House s Democratic majority matched Cleaver s prayer with a proposal to eliminate all non- gender-inclusive language from house rules, not least father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister. They are to be replaced with terms like parent, child, sibling, sibling of parent, and so on. The nonsense from those 1990s critical-theory seminars on queering the family is now influencing official policy in the lower chamber of Congress.
Eeyup. (Pronounced “Eeee-YUP.”)