Jordan Peterson in Hot Water over Pronouns (Again)

 American Thinker

God bless Jordan Peterson.  "Up yours, woke moralists," Peterson told Twitter in a recent podcast when they suspended his account for tweeting a missive that apparently used incorrect gender pronouns and somehow violated Twitter's ambiguous and purposely vague rules of conduct.    ...Contrary to woke dogma, gender pronouns are meaningless.  Put another way, they are incoherent and indefinable, and when explored with any logic or rigor, they unravel into mush.  They violate basic grammar rules and create confusion in both the speaker and listener.  Using "they/them" as singular pronouns causes ambiguity and problematizes communication, and destabilizes established cultural and linguistic norms.  Further, because modern gender ideology teaches that gender is fluid and not fixed, pronouns can change at any time for any reason.   .....This mushy, incoherent swamp recently swallowed Jordan Peterson on Twitter.  In response to his suspension, Peterson stated in part: 

"And how can I describe the fact that someone who was once a woman (and really still is) had her breasts cut off because she/he/her/them had fallen prey to a viciously harmful fad without using the appropriate sex-linked pronoun and the real name of the real person to whom this was really done (with her/his/their voluntary but unfortunate acquiescence)?

And so it was impossible to communicate what had happened to my audience without, apparently, running afoul of the impossible and absurd rules that now hypothetically govern morality itself in the days of the degenerated postmodern and Marxist ethos that we must still, no matter how impossible it is, abide by — or else."

Exactly.

This isn't to say we shouldn't treat our fellow human beings with compassion or respect.  Still, our culture's obsession with pronouns is unhealthy and concerning.

Progressive postmodern Marxists who traffic in identity politics want pronouns to matter — too much, and in all the wrong ways.  And unfortunately, they will continue to build them into ever more serious, consequential, and ideological entities that they alone can wield and control.