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Van Jones: Inclusive Language Has Gone So Far and Has Become a Parody of Itself More Often

‘It’s a distraction from getting anything actually done’
By Grabien Staff

RUSH EXCERPT:

JONES: “I understand that there are people who are concerned about the status quo in the way certain groups are left out in this mistreated there, worried about some of the ways we talk might be the old language might be codifying the old attitudes. They want new language to signify new attitudes. But it’s gone so far. It’s a joke, it’s a parody of itself all too often. Even people like myself, who are passionate committed to these causes, you find yourself your afraid to even talk on a zoom call, because you might say the wrong word that’s been 15 minutes being lectured about how something that nobody has even heard of six months ago is now required speech. In polite company. It’s a distraction from getting anything actually done.”

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