The first insight of linguistics, going back to Plato, is that words are conventions, without magical powers. That's being nullified by PC/SJW attacks on mentioning taboo words, even ironically or in works of art. https://quillette.com/2018/08/02/the-death-of-the-author-and-the-end-of-empathy/ … via @QuilletteM
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White privilege, or Asian and Jewish privilege? After all, the latter appear to outperform the former in the U.S.!
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Problem is that American academia trains America's K-12 terachers, so the zombie potion seeps down to, by now, maybe 100 million K-12 graduates in the last 2.5 generations. Latest trick:https://twitter.com/JessicaChasmar/status/1027666162346283008 …
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