A woke tech company in California is on a mission to do away with what it considers to be ‘violent’ ‘offensive’ and ‘negative’ words in favour of more ‘inclusive’ language.
The Daily Mail reports that the company called Phenomenex has produced a ‘guide’ to change the way people speak titled Evolving from Violent Language.
The author of the thing, Anna Taylor who has the ludicrous title of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion champion’ as well as communications director, stated “The guide is for those who would like to replace mostly violently framed idioms with more positive and inclusive language.”
This equates to getting rid of phrases such as ‘jump the gun’ and ‘roll with the punches’ (because of the gun and punches bits) and even words like ‘deadline’ (dead = bad).
The guide suggests replacing the phrase ‘kill two birds with one stone’ with ‘feed two birds with one scone’.
Since when did anyone feed scones to birds?
Here is a sample of the rest of the language policing suggestions:
This is great! Once fully implemented I assume we will also have a total nuclear disarmament and achieve world peace?
Good thing they don’t work in construction. Lol
One day soon there will be a tall, windowless, featureless building in Washington where “diversity, equity and inclusion” are the curriculum for the re-education of those few who resist.
WOKE go BROKE !!!!!