When To Scrap Politically Incorrect Words
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
How do we determine when to retire truly offensive words and replace confusing ones, against virtue signaling and shifting goal posts?
Ron Hayden of "Worth Watching" and Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy of "Majoring in Everything" join to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. I'm your host Andrew Heaton. I am rejoined today by two very fun |
| 0:16.4 | guests and friends. Ron Hayden came on about maybe six weeks ago Ron you and I |
| 0:21.4 | talked about science and |
| 0:22.5 | scientism he is the host of worth watching and a fun dude nice to see you Ron you |
| 0:27.9 | too and I am also joined by Dr. Andrea Jones Roy, a very funny, very thoughtful friend of mine |
| 0:36.1 | that I love talking to. She hosts majoring in everything and she has a really strong |
| 0:40.6 | Tik-Tok game. I think you're probably the best Tik-Tok game. Thank you. I think you're probably the best Tik-Tok political scientist there is. |
| 0:46.4 | Oh, stop. |
| 0:47.4 | The competition is stiff out there with those political scientists |
| 0:50.7 | taken over Tik-Tok, but I appreciate it. |
| 0:53.0 | I know. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, that Morris Fiorina, he does all those skateboarding tricks when he's on Tik-Tock. |
| 0:58.6 | It really just blows everybody out of the water. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, okay, here's what I want to talk to you all about today. All right, keep going. |
| 1:04.3 | That's... I would like to enlist your help in coming up with my own rubric that I can use and listeners can use if they think it makes sense for when I have to change the words I use, changing my wordage, because sometimes I'm like that one makes sense, and sometimes I'm like that one makes sense and sometimes I'm like I think you're just trying to feel special quite frankly and I don't want to be a dick but I also don't want to let people kind of lead me around by the nose. |
| 1:34.4 | So I would like to develop a workable system that we could do that. |
| 1:38.2 | And I normally wouldn't invoke this for our purposes today, but since we are going to inevitably be going into some tender areas, |
| 1:45.8 | some controversial areas and some identity areas, I think it would be worth pointing out that I am the only |
| 1:51.6 | straight guy straight |
| 1:53.6 | straight up garden variety straight white male on today's panel. |
| 1:56.3 | Andrea, you are gender non-binary. |
| 2:00.7 | That's right. |
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