Cancel Cultures: Woke and Unwoke (Robert Wright & Norman Finkelstein)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is There a Normal Organic Evolution of Language?
The problem with lokeness is they don't allow for the gradual organic evolution of language. They take up their crowbar and push these pronouns or slashes into sentences, which is just like taking a wrecking ball to language. I have a real problem when people who've never read a novel are dictating the norms of language. But I recognize language evolves. And I recognize that a lot of what may seem out of bounds makes language more colorful. And it makes it more lively. It wasn't done with a gun to your head. There have been wonderful additions to our language,. whether they are Yiddish editions or African American editions., he says.
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