The total number of people behind this project of linguistic purification is relatively small, but their power is potentially immense.
This is because most of the guides draw on the same sources from activist organizations: A Progressive’s Style Guide, the Racial Equity Tools glossary, and a couple of others. The words these guides recommend or reject are sometimes exactly the same, justified in nearly identical language.
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So do the American Heart Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the National Recreation and Park Association, the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and the University of Washington. The poor is classist battle and minefield disrespect veterans depressing appropriates a disability migrant-no explanation, it just has to go.Įquity-language guides are proliferating among some of the country’s leading institutions, particularly nonprofits. Y’all supplants the patriarchal you guys, and elevate voices replaces empower, which used to be uplifting but is now condescending. Urban, vibrant, hardworking, and brown bag all crash to earth for subtle racism. In its zeal, the Sierra Club has clear-cut a whole national park of words. It seeks to cleanse language of any trace of privilege, hierarchy, bias, or exclusion. The guide’s purpose is not just to make sure that the Sierra Club avoids obviously derogatory terms, such as welfare queen.
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