You can stop your stomachs from churning. We've seen this happen before, where blogs are tools in the propagation of rumors. A blogger gets hold of a meme and runs with it. Instapundit seems to me very credulous. A recent example I've seen: "The University of Kentucky no longer mentions the Jewish holocaust in history classes," is a lie. Checking Pyrthroes' claim below I went to thesaurus.com which is the online cousin of Roget's. It is linked to dictionary.com and encyclopedia.com here. It's true there is no return for "weapon." However, there is a definition for it and an encyclopedia entry for it. Likewise, if you try "sword" in the thesaurus, you do get a reply. I conclude that this is simply bad software. The existence of "sword" in the thesaurus belies the notion that there's a conspiracy, no? That "phallo-centric" term would surely have been expunged before "weapon," no?
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Prythroes writes that feministical, politically correct rants go on for pages, while words like "father" are acknowledged with a passing sneer. This is a substantive problem. A thesaurus is not a dictionary or an encyclopedia, it is a different and necessary literary tool. Concern is justified when a standard reference like Roget's is vandalized to promote a political agenda. Denying the reality of such willful if abstract murder is submission to tyranny.
It would be foolish to suppose that the march of the jack-booted thought police will stop here. Their next step is to re-write history. If the past is a lie, then no change can justified and we are enslaved to the status quo, which is precisely the intent. With that control comes secrecy, and then eugenics.
Orwell's "Brave New World" of ignorant, obedient, passive slaves inches closer.
Anonymous,
The classic distinction between matters-of-fact and "mere opinion" informs this Roget's controversy.
Inaccuracies, "rumors" indeed plague the Internet, though increasingly less than the "fauxtography", blatant partisan and terrorist propaganda, emanating from formerly reputable "news outlets" (print and TV). But Roget's desecration is no rumor, whitewashing this assault on civilized discourse entails approving it. Kathy the PhD as "editor" supplies a curriculum vitae equivalent to a Gender Studies sick-joke-- like Barack Banana in Pennsylvania, this Thing in her bubble-universe is clueless to reality.
Roget's in fact has been destroyed. Search Roget's II (sic and double-sic) for "Rumor", if you doubt our word.
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