Truly, this is the end of civilization.
...The archive at Cambridge’s Homerton College is being reviewed as part of a move to upload texts to a digital library.
In online versions, words, phrases and images deemed harmful will be flagged and content warnings placed at the beginning of each text.
Offending authors include Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote Little House On The Prairie, for her ‘stereotypical depictions of Native Americans’.
Another is Dr Theodor Seuss Geisel, author of the Dr Seuss books, for ‘overt blackface’ and cultural insensitivities....
Egads.
I could have left this response on almost any of these current posts, but it seemed most fitting here. The comedian Ron White famously said, "You can't fix stupid." It's very true. Yet Bonhoeffer said something more telling as a warning. He said that stupid people were more dangerous than evil people. We are seeing this playing out as The West implodes. Stupidity is in overdrive. As we know, Stupid doesn't care about facts. Never has, never will. Bonhoeffer paid the ultimate price of the results of stupid. He was murdered by Hitler's Regime. That said, I truly believe The West in general and the U.S. in particular, are experiencing God's Judgement. We are seeing the worst parts of Romans 1 playing out before our eyes. We have been "given over" and it's only going to get worse. That's my nickel's worth.
ReplyDeleteA network engineer that I know was telling me about how there are people in the IT world that are starting to say they'll no longer be able to use the word "slave" soon, because someone might be offended by it.
ReplyDeleteI just found this article about it:
https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/17/tech-companies-update-language-to-avoid-offensive-terms/
Yikes.
We truly are doomed to live in a world of stupid, weak individuals.