Episode 240: Pain Avoidant Weirdos
The Mockingcast
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The Puritan Quest for Salvation
He says the rationale for equity language guides is hard to fault. They seek a world without oppression and injustice, he writes. But achieving this goal is beyond anyone's power, so they try to purge language until it leaves no one out or can't harm those who already suffer. This huge, expensive energy to purify language reveals a weakened belief in more material forms of progress,. He adds. Equity language doesn't fool anyone who lives with real afflictions. It's meant to spare only the feelings of those who use it.
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