Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
The Good Fight
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Changing the Way We Use Language Can Have a Powerful Impact
Some temporary political causes seem to assume that the way we use language can have powerful political effects. In te united states, for example, there's attempt to get people to say latinac rather than latina or latina. Do you think that those kinds of linguistic changes can actually have a powerful impact? You sceptical of the impact te likely to have? That's an old story. I'm jewish. The kind of terminology that was used for jews in my childhood would not be used now because of the consequences, the effects that it has. Yes, no. We can argue about particular cases, but the general issue is not in doubt,.You don't go around calling
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