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Banning Words Won’t Make the World More Just - The Atlantic

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What’s a “justice-involved person”?

The Sierra Club’s Equity Language Guide discourages using the words stand , Americans , blind , and crazy . The first two fail at inclusion, because not everyone can stand and not everyone living in this country is a citizen. The third and fourth, even as figures of speech (“Legislators are blind to climate change”), are insulting to the disabled. The guide also rejects the disabled in favor of people living with disabilities , for the same reason that enslaved person has generally replaced slave : to affirm, by the tenets of what’s called “people-first language,” that “everyone is first and f

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