What if All Language is Oppressive?

The problem with policing a language already built on objectification

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

I’ve been reading a lot lately about Brandeis’s Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center, PARC, and its well-meaning effort to make language less oppressive. The “oppressive language list” they’ve come up with mostly includes labels like “slave” to describe an enslaved person, “prisoner”…