CDC is causing uproar amongst Americans as more and more people are becoming familiar with their inclusive language guide that discourages using several common terms in the English language.
Be it alcoholic, smoker, or even uninsured and elderly- the list of terms that promote ‘dehumanizing’ are now being put down. And they’re getting replaced with so many other synonyms that mean the same thing but sound less harsh.
At the same time, the guide has a number of sections that entail suggestions that are usually made to eliminate harshness and promote peace, confirmed recent reports. The CDC justified the move by mentioning how it planned to incorporate inclusive communication to spread health equity all around.
While the guide has a number of sections that bring forward so many suggestions that relate to both corrections as well as detentions, it simply means replacing terms like an inmate, prisoner, as well as criminal has never been easier than now.
But that’s not all, there are a number of sections in that guide that entail words like disability, drug/substance, as well as healthcare access. Other sections revolved around the themes of disability, healthcare access, and resources, homelessness, and lower socioeconomic status too.
Many felt that suggesting replacement terms just wasn’t the right way to move forward. Many argued that traditions of the past are being broken without logical thinking, while others held the opinion that the words were just too vague.
“Some of these replacements focus on substituting the words only and not upon their actual meaning. It makes simple things so much more complicated,” others claimed.
The CDC also introduced another mechanism through which ‘person-first language’ was of the utmost essence.point 222 |
“We must consider the audience at stake as well as the context in question.point 68 | This way, you learn to realize what negative assumptions as well as stereotyping your words may be involved in,” they argued.point 179 | 1