The popular Microsoft Word application has now received a new update that, similarly to spellcheck, will generate terms and phrases that are more “inclusive.” This includes things such as gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, cultural bias, age, and “socioeconomic status.”
Spelling errors appear in red underling the word, blue represents grammatical errors, and purple represents the new inclusiveness error.
This new update comes per the latest version of Office 365, which services over 250 million people all over the world.
Reported by The Sun UK, if users type the name of “Mrs. Thatcher – former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – for example, the program may prompt them that it “may imply gender bias,” and suggests using “Ms. Thatcher” instead.
Or famous astronaut Neil Armstrong’s saying, “one giant leap for mankind,” should be corrected to read “humankind” or “humanity” instead.
Since the name “Postman Pat” – a popular cartoon character for children – is not gender neutral, the system suggests using “postal worker” or “mail carrier.”
The list goes on and on.
Some users on social media praise the move.
Your spellchecker will now help you to start overcoming your subconscious biases.
It’s a brilliant feature. I wish they’d make more noise about it.
Digital strategist John Bull
This new checker can be switched off under the “Grammar & Refinements” tab.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[25] How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? [26] Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? Job 6:25-26
Besides the obvious manipulation and censorship of your speech, this ultimately, in my view, is just designed to further irritate those on the political right, and to continually shake that beehive to make them madder and madder with all this libtarded wokeness.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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