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| Subject: You need a degree in 'woke' to mind your language these days... The entire public sector is in thrall to this ever-changing newspeak Thu Oct 06, 2022 11:38 pm | |
| Here we go again. After the NHS decided to bring us 'chestfeeding', 'pregnant persons' and a variety of other nonsensical euphemisms designed to erase biological women, the Local Government Association has decided to get in on the act, too.
Councils across Britain have been issued with a catalogue of banned words and their approved replacements.
For instance, out go 'Mum and Dad', in comes gender-neutral 'birthing parent'. Staff are also being told not to say: 'Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,' because it might offend those who may identify as neither.
The 18-page Inclusive Language Guide, distributed to 359 English and Welsh councils, is aimed at 'embedding equality, equity, diversity and inclusion'. Yet after insisting for years that we refer to people from black and other ethnic backgrounds as BAME, that's now gone on the proscribed list, along with the word 'minorities' itself.
You're not even allowed to say 'multicultural' any more. The preferred term appears to be 'global majority communities'.
What's Welsh for You Couldn't Make It Up?
Mark Lloyd, the LGA's chief executive explains the new rules are essential because 'experiences of trauma, racial trauma and exclusion are already experienced at a disproportionate rate by black, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent people in the workplace'.
.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11289329/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-need-degree-woke-mind-language-days.html
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