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happyguy63
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Political Correctness Eats Its Own Tail
Aug 3 2017 11:41AM more by happyguy63
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In the you can't make this stuff up category...

I knew there is a movement to remove all gender references, even from birth certificates. odd.

But then these geniuses realized that most languages have gender as a big part, like Spanish "latina" and "latino". So they now want to change those languages to remove gender..
they propose using "latinx" which is both silly and hard to pronounce.

But then, telling most of the world that their native language offends you is not very politically correct either...
      
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Aug 3 2017 12:26PM     link to this

We started walking down this road of political correctness and now no one has the balls to tell people who propose this shit that they are full of shit.

Yes, let's just tell the world that their language is politically incorrect....

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Aug 4 2017 09:02PM     link to this

Progressives and language.

I remember when a bunch of 'linguistic professors' were trying to academically validate ebonics.

The progressive Swedes came up with the gender neutral adjective "hen."

happyguy63
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Aug 4 2017 10:06PM     link to this

Of course professors want to encourage that! It's like attorneys encouraging lawsuits. Who make money and has fun with it? An really why not?

I am old enough to remember when people freaked over using "his" for both male and female. Tried "his/her". Somebody invented the word "hiser" (never caught on). Now I think the trend is to randomly switch and mix "his" and "her" in a document, which is confusing and silly
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Aug 4 2017 10:36PM     link to this

Is this a USA/English thing? Do people in other countries worry about this?
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