Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The Green Party is going to war against language, having decided the words "mother" and "father" are no longer fit for its members.
Ahead of its conference in Brighton this weekend, Zack Polanski's party has circulated an 'Inclusive Terminology Guidance' telling activists to drop "mothers and fathers" for "parents and carers", and warning that the wrong vocabulary can create "unwelcoming or exclusionary" environments and feed into bullying and harassment under the party's own code of conduct.
The Telegraph reports that the document, already in use as equalities training, brands a run of ordinary English "unacceptable", then tells members what to say instead. 'Sexual preference' is out because it "implies that attraction is a choice". 'Transsexual' is out because it "does not encompass non-binary people". 'Homosexual' is discouraged for the same reason.
Green Party members have been told to replace terms such as "mothers and fathers" with gender-neutral terminology under new guidance on inclusive language ??https://t.co/s1W0OR75Ob pic.twitter.com/onYLGHsaFj
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'Lunatic' and 'nutter' are non-compliant because they "reinforce negative stereotypes and stigma a
