[Vision2020] Intolerista Score Card

[Art Deco]

Christ Church Cult Motto:

You must tolerate us since we do not tolerate anyone else.


Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at adelphia.net>
To: "'Melynda Huskey'" <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>; <Vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Intolerista Score Card


> Melynda & Visionaries:
> 
> While I do agree that Wilson World's unhealthy obsession with using the
> pejorative 'Intolerista' to describe *all* who disagree with that particular
> worldview is a spot on example of a B vocabulary word, I think we need to be
> tolerant of those who use the word due to an obviously severely limited
> vocabulary, which is *clearly* the case for some who choose to use the word.
> 
> Additionally, I think Wilson World's use of the word does a much better job
> of indicating the character of those *who* use the word than it does to
> indicate anything at all about those who are the *target* of such truly
> pathetic name-calling.
> 
> 
> JMHO,
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> Edmund Burke
> 
> ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2005, Saundra Lund.
> Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Melynda Huskey
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:40 PM
> To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Intolerista Score Card
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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