[Vision2020] Intolerista Score Card

[Joan Opyr]

On Oct 4, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Melynda Huskey wrote:

> Could we possibly consider retiring "Intolerista" in favor of, say, 
> "Some People I Don't Like," or "People with Silly Ideas" or even "The 
> Damned"?
>
> Remember Newspeak, the official governmental language in *1984*?  I 
> quote from Orwell:
>
> "The B vocabulary consisted of words which had been deliberately 
> constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not 
> only had in every case a political implication, but were intended to 
> impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them."
>
> "Intolerista" is a perfect example of the deliberate construction of a 
> B vocabulary word.  That it achieves its goal is evident in Doug 
> Farris's entire post, in which the personal vilification of a large 
> number of people is justified simply by reference to the term itself, 
> and what was intended to be humorous is simply vulgar, rude, or 
> incoherent.
>
> Our ideas can only be as good as the words at our disposal.
>
> Melynda Huskey


My dear M,

I doubt that Doug Farris or Dale Courtney will be retiring the term 
"intolerista" anytime soon.  They don't have permission from Big Doug 
to do so, and until he himself retires the word, I'm afraid we'll be 
obliged to read it in the public arena for many years to come.  Big 
Doug loves nothing so much as one of his own jokes, so he's unlikely to 
stop using the word, and now that his public defender, Jim Fisher, has 
picked it up, well . . . intolerista, I fear, has entered the common 
parlance along with words like "whazza," "bada-bing" and "booty call."

[FYI, Doug Wilson should have used all three of these terms in his 
atrocious blog entry -- http://dougwils.com -- revealing the private 
details of an affair between two ex-Logos employees.  Is this Big 
Doug's version of pastoral concern?  Is this his Christian charity?  
Shame on him.  Makes me wish I had a photo of Douggles having relations 
with a goat -- but wait, isn't that what Photoshop is for?]

As soon as I finish my training with the SAS, I expect Dale "Studley" 
Courtney and Doug "Lemeno" Farris to accept my challenge to a cage 
fight in Friendship Square.  Bare knuckle and barefoot; we'll just 
bring our laptops and have a battle of wits.  Dale and Doug will be 
unarmed, but there are two of them, and I promise to donate all of my 
winnings to charity.  Perhaps, though, I should set aside $100 or so to 
buy Big Doug an Oxford English Dictionary?  The need is surely urgent.  
Better get him an OED before he creates a B word for his B 
Christianity.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.auntie-establishment.com