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The furore over Oxfam’s “woke” language guide misses the point

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Oxfam published a 92-page language guide for staff and contributors. The guide was met with ridicule from the Mail, the Telegraph and GB News. The real problem with the guide lies not in its tortuous pieties, but its extraordinary self-importance.

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The furore over Oxfam’s “woke” language guide misses the point

Top trolling, Oxfam. Short of demanding a ban on common sense, warm beer and Fawlty Towers, the charity could scarce have done more to endanger blood vessels in the anti-woke faction than by publishing its 92-page “inclusive language guide” for staff and contributors. Incorporating sections on “feminist principles for language use” and “race, power and decolonization”, as well as an acknowledgement that “this guide has its origin in English, the…

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