Over at Vodkapundit, Will Collier has a great post up about Newspeak censorship at Thesaurus.com–one involving our friends at Feministing and the concept of “weakness.”

David Thompson has an excellent post up on weakness, as well:

A position of relative weakness is, bizarrely, deemed one of de facto virtue, one that “overrides” other considerations, no doubt in the interests of convenience. Thus, for instance, a random Muslim can be designated a member of some put-upon category of mankind, by virtue of simply being Muslim. What matters, by this logic, is group affiliation and collective identity, regardless of how patronising or cartoonish that collective identity is, and regardless of how partial or notional that affiliation may be. Whether any given individual is actually put-upon, or puts upon others, or hopes to, doesn’t seem to feature in this calculation. What matters, and matters very much, is group “disadvantage” – irrespective of how that “disadvantage” came about or why it persists. Where, I wonder, does self-inflicted “disadvantage” – arrived at by vanity, ideology, stupidity or incompetence – sit in such lofty moral calculus?

Finally, Christopher Taylor elaborates on my post from earlier this week involving the Congressional Black Caucus and the Cherokee Tribe, and federal handouts to the sovereign nation, with less John Paul Jones Paul Revere and the Raiders and much more analysis of the absurdities and internal contradictions.