There is no such sin as sexism or racism or homophobia. These are made-up moral categories that did not exist prior to the 20th Century.<\/p>\n
Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n \n\u201cRepublican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,\u201d the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote. \u201c\u2026 \u2018Schlong\u2019 is a well-known reference to a man\u2019s genitals. There are no alternative definitions for the word, according to Merriam-Webster.\u201d<\/p>\n Sexism for Trump, however, is nothing new. In an email to The Washington Post, Harvard University\u2019s Steven Pinker, a noted researcher on language and cognition, pointed out that Trump, using a term that comes to English via Yiddish and Middle High German, may simply have been trying to say something else.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven Trump\u2019s history of vulgarity and misogyny, it\u2019s entirely possible that he had created a sexist term for \u2018defeat\u2019 (as far as I know there is no such slang verb in Yiddish),\u201d Pinker wrote. \u201cBut given his history with sloppy language it\u2019s also possible that it\u2019s a malaprop.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s problem? He\u2019s a gentile who, linguistically, wandered too far from home.<\/p>\n \u201cMany goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with \u2018schl\u2019 or \u2018schm\u2019 (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAnd headline writers often ransack the language for onomatopoeic synonyms for \u2018defeat\u2019 such as drub, whomp, thump, wallop, whack, trounce, clobber, smash, trample, and Obama\u2019s own favorite, shellac (which in fact sounds a bit like schlong). So an alternative explanation is that Trump reached for what he thought was a Yinglish word for \u2018beat\u2019 and inadvertently coined an obscene one.\u201d<\/p>\n …Only one use of \u201cschlonged\u201d as a verb came from a respected political source. In 2011, NPR\u2019s Neal Conan made this observation (to The Post\u2019s Chris Cillizza) on the 1984 Walter Mondale\/Geraldine Ferraro campaign: \u201cThat ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Respected by who? By people on the left? People on the right don’t respect NPR. They regard it as the enemy. <\/p>\n The reporter’s name? Justin Wm. Moyer. What kind of person uses a name like that? Is he a commie or a homo or just a garden-variety beta male? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no such sin as sexism or racism or homophobia. These are made-up moral categories that did not exist prior to the 20th Century. Washington Post: \u201cRepublican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to … Continue reading