This thread is a good illustration of how so many pseudo-liberals are more concerned with language policing than anything else.

“The wild” is now racist? Huh. I go to the wild areas of Florida all the time. I plan to keep calling them that no matter how racist it might be. If an area has a bunch of animals, trees, and not that many buildings, it’s wild.

You know, when regular people witness stuff like this they think, I don’t want my taxpayer and my kids’ tuition money wasted on this kind of crap. And then academia gets de-funded. I want academia to be funded so I wish no one would engage in this sort of sophistry and holier-than-thou behavior. And to be fair, I think normal people are perfectly correct to have that sort of reaction to linguistic hair-splitting and absurd white-saviorism. It makes part of me want to pull the plug despite all the good I know academics also do, for low pay and little prestige.

But this, this is how a community foot-shoots with alacrity.

This bit about terrible security questions reminds me that sometimes I come across a list of such questions where not a single one is relevant to me. Not a single one in the list. Never been married, don’t have any kids, don’t have any pets, don’t know my parent’s birth dates, etc.

These days, I just make up some garbage and store it in a secured password manager but it’s annoying the assumed uniformity of everyone.

I hope I never have to say any of them over the phone. “Why yes, my oldest child’s nickname is Shitty McPoopinpants.”

Almost all ambitious people seem to have high anxiety. It’s hard to find a counterexample (other than myself). I got supremely lucky in that I am fairly ambitious and have no anxiety at all.