Google Docs gets Social Justice Update, Autocorrecting to Gender Neutral and Politically Correct Language
(Reclaim the Net) Google announced on Tuesday, during its I/O developer conference, that editing capabilities of Google Docs have been expanded to police text and monitor a writer’s level of inclusivity.
Thus an update to the app means that Google Docs will start suggesting changing words like “mailman” to “mail carrier” and “chairman” to “chairperson,” it has been revealed.
Users will also be prompted to avoid using passive voice or what Google determines to be offensive language. It’s unclear from reports if the new feature will be opt-in or out, or hard-coded in the app, that is, impossible to avoid using.
This user-facing change comes after Google’s style guide for developers already seeking to “tidy up” language according to the sensitivities the giant is pandering to. For example,
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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Didi Rankovic and published at Reclaim the Net
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Using non-traumatic language is living your neighbor. Why the controversy? Maybe you hate gays
You’re just dumb. (Inclusive enough for all 19.8 genders you identify as?)
Yet more breathtaking idiocy in the godless left’s neverending promotion of mental illness…
So manhole, is now personhole? Mankind, peoplekind? Fireman, fire-person? Policeman, police-person? Congressman or congresswoman, should be congress-person?
Every word that has the word “man” it, by golly, change ‘em all! Doesn’t matter how stupid it sounds. Do it!
So the Infrastructure Plan will have employment opportunities for “Person-ual labor”?