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
I particularly like the part of the essay that covers speciesism. I loathe the whole Humans Are Teh Greatest garbage.