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Perhaps Tucker’s fears would be eased if the US monetary system was switched back to the Imperial......12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound, etc.....?
Before the US is able convert to metrics, it must first understand that there is a difference between a metre and a meter.
OB
The difference, for us, is one is how we spell meter here in the U.S. and metre is how they spell it in Canada.
We also don't spell center, color or check as centre, colour or cheque either.
I mean Tucker has always been a loathsome and shameless propagandist, but trying to link up the metric system with the evils of the french revolution is really rather stupid.
Calling it inelegant is amazingly stupid.
Sometimes I wonder if Tucker is engaging in performance art... and then I remember that this is Tucker we're talking about.
"Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny—the metric system," Carlson said. "From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people of the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and kilograms. "The United States is the only major country that has resisted, but we have no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds."
It would be trivial if it didn't work on people. You can be anti-academia without trying to be dishonest.
Propaganda is used precisely because it works so well.
The label anti-academia seems overly broad.
Advancing ideas like the metric system and an actual understanding of the french revolution and propaganda in general are all things that more scholarship would help with not less.
You also have to know just enough truth to mix in with your lies to be an effective propaganda artist like Tucker is right there, he is simply using his scholarship to promote an anti-academic viewpoint to advance whatever his agenda is at the moment.
So he's actually bastardizing both sides of that particular fence.
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Its not just Canada that uses metre. The Brits use it, NZ uses it, we use it. The US may be the only country using meter as spelling for the unit of measurement.
Centre/center, color/colour are spelling variants for the same concept. Outside of the US, a metre and a meter are two different things.
A metre is a unit of length while, for the rest of us, a meter is a measuring gauge - as in water meter or gas meter or parking meter.
(Cheque and check also have two different, unique meanings in the non-American English world.)
OB
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