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Arizona has run into trouble policing language in the past.
It's not about policing language, White insists, but having "a call to action" that will make people think twice about using a term that can hurt and exclude so many people.
Coming from someone whose entire body of work is essentially about policing language, the hypocrisy is particularly staggering.
I can't accept the excuse that policing language is somehow a greater moral wrong than the harm of that language on the people it is being used against.
Policing language is never popular and rarely easy.
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When called out on policing our language, trademark holders and their lawyers usually shrug their shoulders and say, "Nothing to do with us.
Although Ms. Swift and Ms. Miller followed up their first book with a style guide, "The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing," in 1980, Ms. Swift insisted that she had no interest in policing the language.
In short, I consciously and subconsciously employed an internal and external hypervigilence centered on policing my language and articulation.
But Yates then muddied the waters by saying the offer was a briefing about police language and protocols in investigations and not about the hacking investigation itself.
She spoke in the same clipped police language as the friend who had first called her. "I said, 'Ma, there was an altercation outside Forbidden City this morning,' " she said.
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