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The new "catch phrase" of the day is, "let's have a conversation."
What makes these newly coined phrases so generic is how EVERYONE will use them, as if they ALL got the same memo or were all preprogrammed to speak the SAME.
Group speak... goes right along with group think in my book.
Last edited by High_Plains_Drifter; 10-07-2017 at 09:15 AM.
Not so junior as all that
Darn! How are you grokking all these new words before I even hear them? "Let's have a conversation" sounds ominous, probably comes from the old dangerous Southern idiom, "I wanted to visit with you a little."Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter
That means trouble. John Malkovich uses the visit phrase well as a company boss in the movie "Deepwater Horizon." Both participants are from New Orleans and you can see the fix-it guy understands the boss is there to put on the pressure to procede with oil production and quit the tests. He gets his way, but the rig blows up.
What do you think "Let's have a conversation" means?
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I assume to those using it, it means they're willing to discuss a certain subject.
But what gets me is how they ALL will use the same phrase, as if they ALL were programmed to do so. The pundits, the analysts, the political figures that are interviewed, just talking heads in general, they hear something and then it appears one right after another just repeats it like a robot. I think it's almost creepy.
Not so junior as all that
Memes, Dr. Dawkins called them: contagious words or concepts passed from person to person like viruses. Language is very contagious.
Here's a new word I'm dubious about: privilege. "Check your privilege" was going around for awhile but it's completely incomprehensible as well as obviously hostile, whatever it meant, so I think it may be going out of fashion. But privileging used as a verb is on the rise. You privilege something, meaning to prefer and promote it, I think.
This from a conservative (rather heavy) magazine this morning: "But the world was entering an age of science, which privileged any doctrine that could claim the unquestioned authority of quantitative disciplines."
I don't know about that usage.
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"Let's have a conversation": We on the left will explain to you why you are a gun-loving, Bible-thumping, racist, Neo-Nazi so you can immediately acquiesce to our fascist demands.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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And then people like me will say "Nigger please" and conversation is probably over.
Just Me
I have to go process that racist comment to determine whether or not we need to have a conversation.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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Will you be going to your safe space to process it ?
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If you're black it's OK to say nigger. Just listen to some rap, any rap, or hip hop, won't take long before you hear nigger, over and over in fact, in lots of songs, and you know blacks hate that word so much... right?
But if you're white and you say nigger, you're a complete racist and just spoke one of the most insulting words on the planet.
Isn't it funny how that works?
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Yep... or in simpler terms...
"... have a conversation"... CAVE TO THE LEFT.
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I am 100% pure Southern born and bred. Born in 1954 but one would think 1901, as that was when my father was born and he taught me to be so like him in thinking that its uncanny.
Back in my day we'd say, "Well lets just have a little talk about that!"
And nothing was going to be --little-- or involve much---talking-- once you'd tell the person their error and how you are gonna stomp them if they do not cease and apologize for having made that grave mistake in the first damn place!
I should know-- as Ive uttered that line more than a few dozen times and trust me it meant--
"consider yourself blessed indeed that I am giving you this option not to get broke like a damn twig."
Those too dense, to stupid or thought themselves too tough, soon found out , this Southern man does not make idle threats..
And the word --process-- was never uttered..
Folks got the damn message lightening quick... -Tyr
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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