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Bill: (Bad) Spelling Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Conservative Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2071
Description[?]:
| To help citizens with poor spelling skills, including our dear "First Comrade" who regularly have to face pointless criticism over typos and other trivial misspelling of words. We propose that bad spelling, where the message is still clear, is deemed acceptable and therefore needless nit-picking over spelling becomes a discriminatory act. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:47:34, June 22, 2005 CET | From |  International Socialist Party | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | ageed!!!!!! |
| Date | 23:49:07, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | Freedom to the dyslexic! |
| Date | 02:09:11, June 23, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | heh agreed we all make mistakes. |
| Date | 03:57:45, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Unified Communist Labor Party | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | Ok could we stop proposing these useless "resolutions" that I have to spend time voting on? Sheesh... |
| Date | 17:11:51, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Smirnoff Party | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | For decades, Marxists have been hard at work deconstructing the modernist fallacies of metaphysical realism and epistemological objectivism. As members of the cognoscenti, we realize that spelling and grammar, as well as the "standards" associated with them, are merely part of a hegemonic order of manipulation designed by the ruling class for the purpose of reinforcing traditional power structures and limiting the size of the discursive playing field. The most thorough analysis of the contemporary bourgeois power structure hitherto was produced by the much celebrated Postmodernist intellectual Michel Foucault. In his thought-provoking analysis of how the capitalist elite deploys pernicious technologies of control to keep subordinate classes in a state of subjugation, Foucault charted the transition from a top-down form of social control in the form of physical coercion meted out by the ruling classes under feudalism, to a more diffuse and insidious form of social surveillance and process of 'normalisation' under capitalism. The latter, is encapsulated by the spellchecker. It has became the metaphor for the processes whereby disciplinary 'technologies', together with the emergence of a normative social science, 'police' both the mind and body of the modern individual. Spellcheckers are, quite simply, the latest, and most visible system of bourgeois control. By defining what words are, or are not acceptable, multi national corporations exercise control over our intellectual discourse. As we all know, Spellcheckers were designed by the Military/Industrial/Microsoft Complex, with the aquiescence of the Raegan administration, in an effort to the keep the populace stupid and controllable. A classic example of Bravermans 'deskilling' thesis. If you have a spellchecker then you will never really need to learn how to spell, just type whatever and the computer will fix it. You stay stupid, the corporations can control you easier because of that stupidity. However, as Gramsci brilliantly observed, cultural hegemony can only be achieved with the consent of subordinate groups. So, by adhering to the linguistic standards of the bourgeois, we are complicit in our own marginalization. Consequently, we have to continue to use all of the resources at our disposal to poke holes in the grand capitalist meta-narrative that has so insidiously and detrimentally shaped the worldview of the working class, causing the dispossessed to remain apathetic in the face of fascist encroachments. |
| Date | 22:27:58, June 23, 2005 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Party | To | Debating the (Bad) Spelling Act |
| Message | Well, I suggested it out of finding Spelling Nazis annoying, but whatever floats your boat. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 525 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 132 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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