A progressive's guide to political correctness

[Phantasmal]

I pardon your ignorance.
It is SOP after a debate resolve is reviewed, and the debaters introduced, to define terms.
It is an utterly routine, conventional standard practice.

You're welcome.

Here's the link:

https://www.epa.gov/

Books have been written on the topic, starting with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
Not my job to drag you kicking & screaming out of the 19th Century.

But the information is all easily accessible for any that wishes to review it.

You're welcome again.
Anything else I can do for you sonny? Tie your shoelace for you perhaps?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/10/politics/epa-lawsuits-dip/index.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...p-shrinks-to-near-reagan-era-staffing-levels/
https://www.google.com/amp/www.newsweek.com/under-trump-epa-more-about-politics-science-659578?amp=1

https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/03/how-trump-is-

changing-science-environment

https://democrats-energycommerce.ho...mprehensive-update-to-safe-drinking-water-act

 

[floridafan]

PS

It's a gargantuan blunder to conflate a political party with conservatism.

Examples too numerous to mention.
I'll cite ONE.

A politician so "liberal" he's been called "Governor moonbeam". California Governor Jerry Brown is regarded as "liberal".

- dandy -

But the fact is, until California's protracted 5 year drought subsided, "liberal" Governor Brown helped get California through the crisis by implementing CONSERVATIVE principles, limiting water use, etc.

Disregarding conservatism does not undermine the fundamental validity or utility of conservatism.
It hasn't.
It won't.
It can't.

I didnt realize that it was a "conservative" principal to limit water during a drought, I though that would be basic common sense.

 

[Bill]

Is there ever a point where the PC police are satisfied, or do they have to continually tilt at windmills?? George Will imagines what an idyllic politically correct world would be like.

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Looks like George Will is no longer a bad person...

 

[sear]

"I didnt realize that it was a "conservative" principal to limit water during a drought" ff #22

But you might have, if you'd read the definition I posted before.

A reprise:

con·serve (kən-sûrv)
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v. con·served, con·serv·ing, con·serves v.tr.

To use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste

[Middle English conserven, from Old French conserver, from Latin cōnservāre : com-, intensive pref.; see COM- + servāre, to preserve; see ser-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
con·serva·ble adj.
con·server n.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=conserve

ff #22 posted:

"I didnt realize that it was a "conservative" principal to limit water during a drought" ff #22

It is PRECISELY so, by DICTIONARY* definition !! !!

"I though that would be basic common sense." ff

Even if to a lesser degree the latter, that doesn't mean not also to a greater degree the former.

If ANYone tells you they're a conservative, the first question you should pose to them is: And what is it you wish to conserve.

* kudos to AHD !

 

[archives]

Yes mush, we all know your thoughts on just about anything..

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Nah, just climate change, and if you had read George Will over the years you'd also recognize that this is a bit too prepackaged for him

 

[sear]

"It was the republican government of Michigan that allowed this to happen in Flint. they just did not care." ff #15

Even if so, it's a scathing indictment of Republicans. But it's virtually irrelevant to genuine political conservatives.
For despite the rare anecdotal exception Republicans are not in the main, political conservatives.

Political conservatism is a proud tradition, and we're here to stay.

"Nah, just climate change, and if you had read George Will over the years you'd also recognize that this is a bit too prepackaged for him" a #25

I'm a gargantuan George Will fan.
And though I deeply appreciate his keen insight, and articulate expression, George Will is a political / social commenter, not a climatologist.