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Article #154Re: Vote Against Political Correctness
From: Jacques Chester
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:57
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:57
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"Chris" <gabba@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message news:3be68c35$1@news.iprimus.com.au... > > "Geoff Bird" <geoff@students.org.au> wrote in message > news:3be64703.39189837@news... > > The Australian Union of Students has called for Australians > > to vote against "Political Correctness" by putting Labor last. > > As a former student, the most annoying thing about handing in an assignment > was making sure you abided by non-sexist language, ie. using mankind etc. > What a pain in the arse, and how totally irrelevant in writing a decent > assignment. You may blame sociology, where I learnt that language is a Tool Of Oppression, amongst other fascinating facts including "You Are Wrong", "There Is No Such Thing As Biology", and "All Arguments Can Be Won By Special Appeal To Social Conditioning". Ironically, "man" in its early form means "person" or "human". It turns out that "woman" is the sexist word, meaning "wife-man". Hence to say "Chairman" is more correct that to divide it into "Chairman" and "Chairwoman". Likewise, "Chairperson" is redundant. Furthermore, it is unwieldy, and the guidelines of style and readability mean that kludges like "he and she" or "humankind" should be dispensable. JC.
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