The central European nation is the latest country to fall victim to political correctness taken to extremes. Earlier this year, some British museums reportedly stopped using the word ‘mummy’ to refer to ancient remains, switching to ‘mummified person’ or ‘mummified remains’ out of ‘respect’ for 3,000-year-old corpses.
For decades, Americans have debated whether we are a force for good on the world stage. But the debate should be settled in the negative based on the fact that we aren’t allied with the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea. Shouldn’t we be for democracy? For people? For republics? How could we possibly be a virtuous nation if we don’t love Kim Jong Un?
The central European nation is the latest country to fall victim to political correctness taken to extremes. Earlier this year, some British museums reportedly stopped using the word ‘mummy’ to refer to ancient remains, switching to ‘mummified person’ or ‘mummified remains’ out of ‘respect’ for 3,000-year-old corpses.
gets passed down. suddenly banned. it reminds me a little of the workers in orwell s 1984 assembling the dictionary of newspeak, which is a process of destroying words in order to make thought impossible. these equity language guides our little like. that they are not totalitarian. but they do have this purpose and effect of making it impossible to have a thought that you can consider to be a bad thought. but i don t think they are getting rid of that thought. what they are getting rid of is our ability to talk about bad things in a way that makes sense and we can communicate an ordinary speech. i mean, no disrespect to the sierra club. but doesn t matter what the sierra club s language guide says? or how widespread is that? that s a good question. i could be accused of making far too much of guides that are really internal matters for the