https://freerepublic.com/tag/wokeitude/ en-us Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:48:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3799774/posts Merriam-Webster just gave the personal pronoun “they” the word of the year title: Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition to its online dictionary to reflect use of “they” as relating to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary. In October, the American Psychological Assn. endorsed “they” as a singular third-person pronoun in its latest style guide for scholarly writing. Of all of the wokeness that I am not very woke about, the pronoun nonsense probably holds the least hope for me every achieving wokeitude. I am still too much a fan of science to believe that there are 6,000 genders... PJ Media https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3799774/posts#comment Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:48:48 GMT