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Doug Peterson,
Dec 20, 2021
Doug Peterson points to this article in CBC about words and phrases we might not want to use. It's a list of expressions that embody negative connotations about various cultures and races. Some media sources "reached out and jumped all over the message", he writes. "The authors took some liberties with even the title of the post. Instead of 'you may want to think twice about using', toughened the language to read 'words you can't say' and then went off on that particular tangent." This sort of thing is so tiring. It's not simply that it's dishonest, though it's certainly that. It's this idea being promoted that simply being nice to other people is this onerous burden that's too great to bear. How sad.
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