"The Sierra Club's Equity Language Guide discourages using the words stand, Americans, blind, and crazy. “The first two fail at inclusion, because not everyone can stand and not everyone living in this country is a citizen. The third and fourth, even as figures of speech (‘Legislators are blind to climate change’), are insulting to the disabled. “The guide also rejects the disabled in favor of people living with disabilities, for the same reason that enslaved person has generally replaced slave: to affirm, by the tenets of what’s called ‘people-first language,’ that ‘everyone is first and foremost a person, not their disability or other identity.’ “The guide’s purpose is not just to make sure that the Sierra Club avoids obviously derogatory terms, such as welfare queen. It seeks to cleanse language of any trace of privilege, hierarchy, bias, or exclusion. "In its zeal, the Sierra Club has clear-cut a whole national park of words. Urban, vibrant, hardworking, and brown bag all crash to earth for subtle racism. “Y’all supplants the patriarchal you guys, and elevate voices replaces empower, which used to be uplifting but is now condescending. “The poor is classist; battle and minefield disrespect veterans; depressing appropriates a disability; migrant—no explanation, it just has to go.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/equity-language-guides-sierra-club-banned-words/673085/ To euphemize English is to anesthetize English, then leave it for dead.
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Laura
4/12/2024 06:26:26 pm
The English language is being constantly attacked. Meanings are twisted and changed until well-known words are unrecognizable. Incorrect or imaginary pronouns are the weapons of activists. I think the worst of the new euphemisms is MAP, minor attracted persons, i.e., pedophiles. Let’s switch to speaking Latin!
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Josef Ketzer
4/14/2024 10:47:23 am
The year 1948 is calling the Sierra Club ☎️: "Hi guys, compared with your results, Orwell's Newspeak is just a babish thing!"
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