'Nashville school bans "Harry Potter" series, claim books "risk conjuring evil spirits"'

[Yukaphile]

Now let's be fair. The "progressives" in 2016 were so wild and chaotic and hateful, I briefly soured on the word too, and I'm a bona-fide flippin' leftist! So, isn't that what Darth Wedgius would criticize? Making assumptions in your mind?

[Admiral X]

Okay, so what is the least poisoned term for 'I want everyone to be respected and given a fair shot at their ideal life, regardless of sex, ethnicity, orientation, or beliefs'?

I'm leaning towards 'egalitarian' but I'm expecting that one to have fallen, too.

No, in spite of all attempts to paint it as part of the "patriarchy" egalitarianism is still egalitarianism.

By its detractors.

Convenient how that works for them.

No, it's been "tainted" by the people claiming to believe in it through their actions and the stupid shit they say.

[Darth Wedgius]

Okay, so what is the least poisoned term for 'I want everyone to be respected and given a fair shot at their ideal life, regardless of sex, ethnicity, orientation, or beliefs'?

I'm leaning towards 'egalitarian' but I'm expecting that one to have fallen, too.

That wouldn't necessarily be "egalitarian" because it hinges on the word "fair," IMHO. If you believe that some people should be given extra help or extra burden to do sex, ethnicity, orientation, or beliefs because that would be "fair" then it wouldn't be egalitarian. If you believe that treatment should be on an individual basis that doesn't take those into account, you would be.

There would be gray areas, e.g. if you can show active discrimination against some people then it might make sense to give individuals suffering such discrimination a leg up, and of course that discrimination won't necessarily done itself without regard to any of those factors. I mean, it would if bigots were fair, but that's not part of the job description. You don't see black supremacists and white supremacists comparing tallies at the end of the month, AFAIK. I've frankly given up any hope for a better standard of bigot.

[Darth Wedgius]

As far as I know, no evil spirits have been summoned at the school since the ban. No zombie hippopotamuses either, of course. Logically there's only one conclusion. The ban must be keeping both away.

[Yukaphile]

I mean, with some paranoid right of center people's views, the word "fair" amounts to collectivism.

[Admiral X]

Egalitarianism to me means being treated equally under the law, so I suppose you're right to point out that "fair" can mean different things to different people.

[Yukaphile]

Some think "you murdered my mother, so I should murder your mother" is absolutely fair, so you have a point, but that said, it's not really the WORDS that are bad. It's the CONTEXT that make them good or bad. George Carlin, circa 1990.

[clearspira]

Okay, so what is the least poisoned term for 'I want everyone to be respected and given a fair shot at their ideal life, regardless of sex, ethnicity, orientation, or beliefs'?

I'm leaning towards 'egalitarian' but I'm expecting that one to have fallen, too.

Egalitarian is still a good one because a lot of feminists in particular hate the word which is proof it must be doing good work still.

[Yukaphile]

That's very poor logic. I'm a Feminist, I think that's a good word. If it's being used to preach MRA stuff or how "men are the true victims" now, when there's still ways the system hurts us BOTH, then yeah. It's no different than those SJW snowflake brats in 2016 hijacking the word "progressive" while voting for a draft-dodging, white-privileged, misogynistic, old womanizing hypocrite.

[Mecha82]

Yuka you should know that logic doesn't apply to radicals like him. They always think that everyone else is radical like them without being able to understand that there are those that don't belong to any of extremes.