>Content Warning: This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace. From an anthropological perspective, it’s fascinating how the weakest and most sensitive people possible are now the ones in charge of policing language. Talib was right about this, on a long enough timeline most things do become a dictatorship of the small minority. https://medium.com/ince…
What makes you think they are weak?
Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
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#182>Content Warning: This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace. From an anthropological perspective, it’s fascinating how the weakest and most sensitive people possible are now the ones in charge of policing language. Talib was right about this, on a long enough timeline most things do become a dictatorship of the small minority. https://medium.com/ince…
What makes you think they are weak?
Or even the existence of languages with gendered nouns. Why are we coddling xenophobes who are afraid of Spanish grammar rules? IMO that's not a fear that is healthy or rational.
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#183https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative#Pejoration_and_me...
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#187I wonder if they keep this title. Fits right in with
> Unneccesary use of violent language
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#189I heard a theory that woke is actually a class marker of manners, indicating that someone has the time and privilege to track the constantly shifting, baroque signals of what is and is not acceptable to say during any given season. If someone were to make that case, this could be evidence in favor.
Sorry, "woke" is ableist and biased against folks living with narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and other sleep disorders^W abnormalities^W^W somnodivergence.