Do you ever wish Google could save your words when you are choosing the right words? The tech company’s Rescue vest is for those who are intent on expression, but fear of offending.
Google Docs is now able to alert you about words it finds unacceptable.
Make a wrong move, and you’ll be told your choice “may not be inclusive to all readers.”
Software will guide you in a benevolent way to the words that are sufficiently awake.
So if you go savage with something like “landlord,” you’ll be turned onto “property owner” or “proprietor.”
Make the macho mistake of “mankind,” and you’ll be corrected to the tune of “humankind.”
Go full neanderthal with “policemen,” and “police officers” will be served up.
And if you Cro-magnon crap the bed with “housewife,” for goodness sake, respect a “stay-at-home spouse.”
The current craze for curbing speech?
These are the cases:
Host of School’s Free Speech Event Issues Language Guide Prohibiting ‘Man,’ ‘Woman,’ and ‘Mother’
University Schools Students on the Importance of Free Speech — and Reporting People Who Use It
To Be Inclusive of Non-Binary Parents, Hospitals Nix the Terms ‘Breast Milk’ and ‘Father’
Student Protests University’s ‘Inclusive’ Pronoun Rules, a Petition Demands He Be Kicked out of School
She’s No ‘Showgirl’: Microsoft Pummels the Problematic by Correcting Your Unwoke Words
Breastfeeding Academy Bails on ‘Breasts’
Even Disney — a cultural institution founded upon entertaining ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls — no longer does so:
Disney Lops ‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ Bounces ‘Boys and Girls’ in the Name of Inclusionhttps://t.co/hiUaAF2sZJ
— Alex Parker (@alexparker1984) July 14, 2021
As for inclusion, it’s a tricky thing. So tricky, in fact, it’s impossible.
If someone excludes a word in the name of inclusion, they’ve already lost the battle.
Furthermore, there is no such thing as one word which “inclusively” enchants all in the universal audience while another word meaning the exact same thing does not, as some will prefer one word and others its alternative. You can only use the word you choose.
Some people in modern culture would rather your dreams not come true.
The New York Post reported that the Google feature had a unique sense of humor.
Vice writers found that when they attempted to type in the words “annoyed” and “Motherboard,” these seemingly innocuous terms were flagged for being insufficiently inclusive.
A transcription of an interview with David Duke (ex-Ku Klux Klan leader), in which he used the n word and said a number of other offensive things about black people raised no alarm.
Via Vice
Even Jesus…doesn’t get off easily — rather than talking about God’s “wonderful” works in the Sermon on the Mount, Google’s robot asserts, He should have used the words “great,” “marvelous,” or “lovely.”
Hopefully, we’ll one day again live in a world where everyone can freely speak their mind. For now, if you reference your “waiter,” the modern among us will lament your mistake. That might be okay, per a certain “wonderful” passage — after all, blessed are those who mourn. They’ll be comforted, but Google would like to intercept your error before it reaches their enlightened ears.
-ALEX
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