Fascinating and important post from Salty Current – AP drops ‘illegal immigrant’ and ‘schizophrenic’ and, the language fetishist just might be you
The important point here is that we shouldn’t accept superficially casual dismissals of ‘vocabulary wars,’ ‘fetishization,’ or ‘language policing.’ We should look closely at the words people cling to with the most tenacity, even as they try to sound?blas? about it.
Categories: language
Crunching numbers on the latest Oxfam report 
Quote OTD: Humour is a social act that forms a social function 
Today in Double Standards 
Quick Hit: Angry = Awesome 
Hoyden About Town 
I particularly like the part of the essay that covers speciesism. I loathe the whole Humans Are Teh Greatest garbage.