Wokism in America Thrives

 

Have you heard the latest lunacy from the National Education Association (the largest national teachers’ union)?  It is proof that woke thinking still thrives.

The term “mother” is deemed to outdated: “birthing parent” is to be the preferred term affixed to a parent who gives birth to a child.

Huh?  Last I heard, wombs are found only in females.  Thus, giving birth is exclusively the activity of one sex.  “Mother” is descriptive of a particular type of parent which does not include the other sex.

The woke left (have their terms become interchangeable?) is obsessed with deleting labels or names which they deem offensive (to someone).  Thus, the successful campaign, for instance, to force the Washington football team to find a substitute for ‘Redskins” even though native American Indians were hardly on the warpath because they found the nickname offensive.

But the teachers’ union has gone even more nuts.  It wants to remove “mother” from the politically correct vocabulary even there is no purported victim!

[I will concede that someday, science may be able to give males the capability to give birth to another human being.  The nature of motherhood can be revisited at that time.]

By the way, for the more conventional wokers among us who insist upon the presence of victimhood before names can be changed, I suggest the following candidates from a list of baseball teams:

          Arizona Diamondbacks – what about people who are frightened by snakes?

          Los Angeles Dodgers – does that mean that people who don’t use crosswalks while “dodging” through traffic are to be commended?  What about the risks posed to the law-abiding drivers?

          Milwaukee Brewers – does it promote excessive consumption of beer and hence alcoholism?  Think of all the harm caused by that addiction.

          San Diego Padres – Spanish missionaries in California often demeaned the local populace.  Why honor them?

          San Francisco Giants – are little people less important?

          Pittsburg Pirates – why herald lawbreakers?  Law and order advocates are offended.

 

Wokers: you now have new targets to feed your need for                                            self-righteousness.  Get to work!