# The intellectual failure on the Right is getting in the country's way. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intellectual-failure-on-the-right-is-getting-in-the-countrys-way/486570 "2009-02-19T18:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intellectual-failure-on-the-right-is-getting-in-the-countrys-way/486570/61 "2009-02-26T04:31:18Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > And Eskimos have no words for snow. Right? [Not quite so many words as ye might think, ennyhoo.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/263/what-are-the-nine-eskimo-words-for-snow) (But, then, the [Sapir-Whorf hypothesis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-whorf) was bullshit from day one. Give a Navajo a handful of mixed blue and green beads and he’ll have no trouble separating them out, even though his language makes no distinction between the colors. As distinct from you, who cannot distinguish freedom from slavery, nor Communism from socialism, nor democracy from liberty, nor madness from sanity.) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intellectual-failure-on-the-right-is-getting-in-the-countrys-way/486570/62 "2009-02-26T21:43:16Z")
All those words for snow, and only one word for “shit”. Probably the result of a monotonous diet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-intellectual-failure-on-the-right-is-getting-in-the-countrys-way/486570.md?page=3)