Wesley J. Smith: Woke Newspeak Watch: DON'T CALL IT 'THE CIVIL WAR', BIGOT REEEEEEEEEE

LOL these people are so fucking tedious.

   Some dude at NYT, Anthony Cartwright Conwright shoots for progressive fame by doing what they do best: making up new words and phrases that (overtly or covertly) advance their fucked-up worldview...

See, 'the Civil War' is--he declares--SUPER-DUPER UN-PC! It decenters or whatever the somethingorother...it should be called 'the Slaveholder's Rebellion'...because...reasons...

   As tedious and exhausting as Trump is, the left continues to be so very much worse...

   And I say again: never, ever, ever adopt their neologisms and pseudo-technical vocabulary. It always aims to distort information, undermine communication, and advance their twisted worldview.

   'The Civil War' it is, and 'The Civil War' it will remain.

   (Though I like to hear lefties squeal when we refer to it as 'The War Between the States'...let alone 'The recent unpleasantness'...)

   Slavery was a dark chapter in American history...but basically only because, in that respect, we were not ahead of the rest of the world. Contrary to the picture the left likes to paint, slavery in America was not some unique evil, but a late episode in a complex, ancient institution. 'Ancient' obviously doesn't mean good...but it's nuts to expect a nation to leap completely out of history, rather than to slowly advance.

   At any rate, when I was a kid everyone with more than two braincells to rub together recognized slavery and the Civil War as a blot on the national soul, and a great but necessary tragedy, respectively. They've always hung like dark clouds over the nation. The insane left now wants to rip the wounds open and exaggerate their awfulness for political purposes--which include ripping the nation apart, the radical left's most cherished goal...