Commentary Sometime around 2016, the word “Latinx” popped onto the linguistic radar. The term is a new way to identify the Hispanic ethnic group: not Latina, not Latino, but Latinx, a gender neutral word designed to include everyone of every identity. Almost instantaneously, “Latinx” was adopted by mainstream culture. Celebrities, advertisers, activists, corporations, and universities…
Nominalism: The Engine of Lies
Commentary How did we get here? How did we arrive at a place where an individual’s worth depends on their race, gender, or class? How did we come to believe that “equity” has moral precedent over freedom? How have we been led to accept that gender has no meaning outside that given to it by…
Sam Sorbo: ‘We Have to Take the Words Back’ to Win Back Culture
Language is being altered, and as definitions are being changed, the narratives using this language have likewise become deceptive in their real meanings. With this, it’s becoming more important to understand the real meanings of words and to understand how language is being changed. To learn more about this, we sat down for an interview…
BC Government Joins Trend of Erasing Gendered Terms
The British Columbia government has removed gendered language from its regulations as part of a broader movement driving similar changes in other parts of Canada and the Western world. In early March, the province announced that it had eliminated 600 instances of gendered language from regulations across 15 ministries. “Gendered words have been changed to…
Baby Stricken With 100 Seizures a Day Overcomes, Now He’s a Teen Learning a Third Language
A baby born with a life-threatening seizure disorder has beaten the odds. He was not expected to live to see his first birthday, yet he’s seen 18, and his diagnosis has even been changed. The teen, James Laberee, is now thriving and is learning a third language. James’s parents Rosemary and Peter had three children…
NYC School ‘Inclusive Language’ Guide Encourages Students to Stop Saying ‘Mom,’ ‘Dad’
A private K-12 school in Manhattan is encouraging its students to stop using the terms “mom,” “dad” and “parents,” in an effort to make the campus a more “welcoming and inclusive” space. In a 12-page “inclusive language” guide (pdf), the Grace Church School recommends that students, staff, and parents “remove harmful assumptions” from the way…
After the Exit of Confucius Institutes, Taiwan Can Help
Commentary The U.S. State Department announced last August that Confucius Institutes established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the United States after 2004 would be required to register as foreign missions. Then in October, Mike Pompeo, secretary of state at the time, said he was hopeful that all Confucius Institutes on U.S. campuses would…
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