The language police are coming for you
Language Log 2024-10-10
It’s not who you think it is. It’s not the people who use pronouns, it’s the ones who want to abolish words they don’t like.
But, you might say, that’s a cartoon making a humorously exaggerated claim. Nope, those are the literal words of Project 2025.
The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (‘SOGI’), diversity, equity, and inclusion (‘DEI’), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.
But, you might continue to say, you’re a white man. You have nothing to worry about.
Unless you’re living in Florida, of course.
Also, as ProPublica revealed when they published Project 2025’s secret training videos, a representative of the group said If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.
They really think they can warp reality by controlling the dictionaries.