Whether there was just one original human language is unknown, but certainly there were much fewer than today.

How we wound up with so many different languages is due to populations splitting up and losing contact with each other. Over time their language changed, just as English today is spoken differently to English in the time of Shakespeare.

Further clarification can be found in this brief YouTube video:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_...

<Do All Languages Derive from a Single Common Ancestor?>

I don't think this is a good slogan brahs: "Progressivism must be destroyed."

It concedes the notion that there can be "progress" from sociocultural arrangements that are *not* insane.

Almost every one of them in history is less insane than <Social Justice Warrior Stalinism>.

You don't even want to use "liberal" in a pejorative rallying slogan- too close to <libertarianism> which is what I suspect most of you would be in favor of.

Don't concede space on a chess board unless you have a really good reason.

<Ben Shapiro> on the disgusting racist <Sarah Jeong>:

Progressivism must be destroyed.

<jessicafischerqueen> I see your point, but it's too awkward to be saying, all the time, "Neo-Stalinism Social Justice Warriorism," even if it is more accurate.

What I'm seeking here is a catchy label that everybody understands.

<Lee> I understand. I'm not really a "catchy label" person, but I will try for an improvement.

<Lee> It's not satire. It's flat out racism and the ideology is clear- there is "no such thing" as racism against traditionally dominant groups.

Just google "white racism" and look at the first 5000 results.

Ok now make it less ambiguous.

Google "racism against white people" and the first 5000 results will be a theoretical explanation why there is no such thing.

There's one thing you can say for the "jerks."

All their cards are out on the table, plain to see.

Also, nevar forget- Stalinists have no sense of humour. Period.

<Lee> first hit- trusty Wikipedia reassuring us that "there's no such thing" as reverse-racism.

Your tax dollars paid for all of this "scholership," nevar forget that either:

<Stalinists> also have zero sense of irony.

That's why our Prime Minister <Justin Time for the End of Canadian Culture> obliviously corrected a young woman by "mansplaining" that she should have said <peoplekind> (not a real word) instead of <humankind> (a real word).

Here is the scene for all to see on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Its...

And now- and this is the *really* telling part- when a Stalinist nitwit like Justin Trudeau "gets the Stalinism wrong" he must abjectly apologize.

Last nail in the coffin? In Stalinism, after the apology, the screws are twisted tighter- not looser.

Apologizing to Stalinists is exactly as fruitful as pouring a bucket of blood on a herd of sharks so they will "go away."

They won't.

Here is <Justin Trudeau> groveling for his "mansplaining":

Anyways as expected, the push back against <American Stalinism> is increasing.

Every day a new Hollywooder comes out in defence of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" guy who was fired for past tweets judged to be politically incorrect.

And one more thing.

There is also "frogsplaining," which you can now witness right here in your own forum.

I wouldn't give up so easily, me dear <frog>.

Luckily for all of us, the host of this forum is indeed willing to entertain a civil discussion.

You shouldn't be put off by crabapples such as myself.

I'm sorry if I misread your tone- not so easy to read tone compared to face to face discussions.

See, I don't care anymore what "Science says" about moral and religious issues. I don't much care what Science says about anything, and I've grown a bit touchy about having to suck up tons of abuse because I'm a white man, etc. You read this every day for years on end, and it kind of gets to you.

I've also gotten really tired of the expectation that I should kow-tow to characters like drag queens. People who send their kids to Drag Queen Story Hour ought to have their heads examined.

So I don't accept Sarah Jeong's spewings as satire or hyperbole--and I would very much like to see people stand up to her and her allies, defy them, and defeat them. Totally.

You are welcome to post here, you will not be called names or cursed at, no one will wish calamities to befall you--a la liberals wishing death to Michael Crichton's family, because he didn't swallow Global Warming--but I don't think you can expect much in the way of agreement.

<Lee> Like a shot at the Olympics, well put.

I still have a problem with the slogan though.

"Civilization can only progress if progressivism is destroyed."

https://leeduigon.com/2018/08/08/gr...

Dems lose because Green Party candidate siphons off 1,100 votes--a candidate who claims descent from space aliens from the Pleiades.

<jessicafischerqueen> I understand your objection to my slogan, "Progressivism must be destroyed," and I remain open to suggestion for a better one. But I just don't think "Neo-Stalinist Social Justice Warriorism must be destroyed" has quite the ring to it.

I mean, we've got to call it something, right?