COME ON: Now The Woke Brigade Just Published A List Of Phrases They Want Cancelled…

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A group of WOKE researchers has suggested the terms like “male” and “female” should not be used in science because they assume sex is binary.

The recommendation is one of many made by the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Language Project, which includes scientists in the United States and Canada. Instead, they say more inclusive terminology like “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing” should be encouraged.

The crackdown on the term “fitness” was revealed in an article published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

The recommendation applies to the field of biology, where fitness is used to describe reproductive success in certain species.

It comes amid a broader push for language to be changed to be less offensive, with doctors also claiming the term “morbidly obese” should be ditched.

It was co-authored by scientists from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and universities in the US, including Michigan, California, and New Jersey.

The project by the scientists follows another, titled “Evolving From Violent Language,” which was created by Anna Taylor, a communications director and “diversity, equity, and inclusion champion” at technology company Phenomenex.

“The guide is for those who would like to replace mostly violently framed idioms with more positive and inclusive language,” Taylor told The Daily Mail.

According to DailyWire, they also laid out 24 words and phrases to which they object, and offered replacements.

They don’t like “feminized” or “masculinized.” “Feminized implies that ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ are biological traits rather than social constructs,” they said. Instead, they suggest writers simply “describe the specific traits.”

They don’t like “blind” or “double-blind,” two kinds of experiments scientists sometimes run. Why? They are “disability metaphors.”

“Survival of the fittest”? Sorry, Charles Darwin, that phrase implies “eugenics” and “ablelism.” Instead, they say you should use “natural selection” or “survival differences.”

And all of these terms are horrible: “master/master  file/master  equation/master variable.”

“Perpetuates harmful stereotypes and connotations to the enslavement of people of color and normalizes language implicated with slavery and enslaved people,” the scientists wrote. Instead, use: “primary / main document / primary equation or variable.”

Weirdly, they don’t like the word “rape,” either.

“Equates rape with a reproductive strategy rather than a violent and traumatic act, which can lead to dangerous misconceptions that is a natural behavior, and the use of the term forces survivors to be confronted with it which is traumatic.”

Instead, use “forced copulation,” they said. Well, that’s solved now.

The project by the scientists follows another, titled “Evolving From Violent Language,” which was created by Anna Taylor, a communications director and “diversity, equity, and inclusion champion” at technology company Phenomenex.

“The guide is for those who would like to replace mostly violently framed idioms with more positive and inclusive language,” Taylor told The Daily Mail.

Below is the guide that offers new acceptable phrases, according to the Daily Wire:

“I won’t avoid it any longer” for “I’ll bite the bullet”
“We’re going to launch” for “we’re going to pull the trigger”
“Can you send me an email?” for “can you shoot me an email?”
“That was a bit excessive” for “that was overkill”
“Let’s not focus on that anymore” for “let’s not beat a dead horse”
“I’m going to gnosh heartily on those tacos” for “Imma murder those tacos” (OK, we made this one up)

 

Dr. Kaitlyn Gaynor, one of the researchers involved from the University of British Columbia, said:

“We reached out to different networks in ecology and evolution that were focused on increasing inclusion and equity in the field to rally support for one very specific action — revising terminology that might be harmful to certain people, particularly those from groups historically and currently excluded from science.”

The EEB Language Project and Ms. Branch’s research team recognize that in the majority of cases, the harm caused by such terminology is unintentional as what is thought to be offensive by one person may not be perceived as problematic by another.

Dr. Alex Moore, another University of British Columbia researcher involved in the project, said:

“There have been many large conversations around inclusion in the fields, and often there are no clear steps that people can take. It was important for us to think through one tractable approach that people can take in their work at an individual level — and at varying scales within the discipline — to make thoughtful choices moving forward.”

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Sources: DaiyWire, DailyMail

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