AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
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Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#2What if someone is poor, disabled, and also French, what should they call themselves?
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#3What if someone is poor, disabled, and also French, what should they call themselves?
Miserable? I stole that from a Tweet cited in the article, tgat summed up the original AP examples as "just another way to describe all the characters in Les Miserables". Propably the most brilliant reaction to that section of APs style book tweet.
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#4Instead of saying the French, we should say “people of croissants”
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#5The poor, the mentally ill, the Associated Press.
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#6Wokeness knows no bounds
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#8I know the French bit (and college educated bit!) is the part that caused the humor/uproar, but I don't understand the recommendation by AP. I'm assuming using "the" with some group is perceived at making that group an other/lesser group. and switching to "people with" is meant to correct that.
if that's the reasoning, i don't see how that buys you anything.
i get that some speech can be reprehensible, but in this case it seems that the the pejorative implications of the language are imbued by people's intentions, not the words themselves. so in a few years, ap will be telling me that "people with" is also marginalizing.
howver, i could be one of "the ignorant" on this topic.
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#9This tweet has caused a lot more offence in America, than it has in France.
Re: AP again clarifies tweet advising that writing 'the French' is 'dehumanizing'
#10I know the French bit (and college educated bit!) is the part that caused the humor/uproar, but I don't understand the recommendation by AP. I'm assuming using "the" with some group is perceived at making that group an other/lesser group. and switching to "people with" is meant to correct that. if that's the reasoning, i don't see how that buys you anything. i get that some speech can be reprehensible, but in this ca…
>by AP
you mean the ap