Van Jones: "Inclusive language" has become "a joke"

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Scott, only because I don’t to go from lipstick on a pig knowing that you have a pig, and thinking I was only singling you out on this. He really does have a pet pig, everyone. There you go. Van, I’ll begin with you instead. Then, is Nick kristoff right in the sense, or some on the left under cutting their own messaging by going, what they believe to be, too far?

>>Yes.

>> Great, now for Scott.

>> I mean, obviously so. I think Scott [and I are] gonna be in violent agreement tonight. 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 actual anything actually done.

[It’s not a distraction. It’s a strategy of deliberate obstruction. This language policing is intended to silence people and intimidate them into retreating from debate on issues. I’m glad that Jones sees it as unserious in some degree, but it’s no joke. — Ed]