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To: Innovative

What’s with the liberal tendency to say “humankind” instead of “mankind”?

I realize that liberals think that the word mankind is offensive to women, because it has “man” in it. But humankind also has “man”. So they are still not achieving the goal of elimination of reference to man.


14 posted on 05/15/2019 9:46:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I realize that liberals think that the word mankind is offensive to women, because it has “man” in it. But humankind also has “man”. So they are still not achieving the goal of elimination of reference to man.

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Imagine the SJW yapping if the moon landing occurred in this year and Armstrong said “That’s one small step for a man and one giant leap for mankind”.


29 posted on 05/15/2019 10:12:31 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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