Manchester University in England is the most recent in a long line of British academic institutions to attempt to impose woke language norms on both staff and students.
“At Manchester, we embrace and celebrate difference and respect. We support each other to create an environment where everyone is able to reach their full potential,” the woke university’s so-called “inclusive language guide”, first revealed by The Sun, pompously declares.
The statement makes the claim that “The way we write about people can help to promote equality, diversity and inclusion.”
To that purpose, common phrases like mother and father, brother and sister, and husband and wife are discouraged, and their replacement with clinically bland terms like parent or caregiver, sibling, and partner is advised.
The University of Bristol has been fighting against terms like “mankind” and “manpower,” and the Northern School of Contemporary Dance has banned ballet from auditions because it uses gendered language and is “built around white European ideas.”
This obsession with eliminating “gendered” language is not exclusive to Manchester.
Despite 12 years of ostensibly conservative rule by Tory prime ministers Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and David Cameron, none of whom made any significant efforts to halt the left’s “slow march through the institutions,” such policies have flourished in Britain.