Google Docs goes woke with 'inclusive' language feature — will bombard users with suggestions when 'ableist' or 'gendered' language is used



Google Docs will roll out a new feature this year prompting users to be more inclusive by suggesting alternatives to "ableist" and "unnecessarily gendered" language.

According to Fox Business, the feature will be introduced as a part of Smart Canvas, a new collaboration tool in Google Workspace designed to make Docs, Sheets, and Slides more "flexible and connected."

What are the details?

While unveiling Smart Canvas at a conference in Mountain View, California, Tuesday, Google general manager Javier Soltero, who oversees Google Workspace, presented what some of the language prompt changes will look like.

One example, which he shared during the conference, demonstrated how Google's revamped assisted writing capabilities would suggest a user change the word "chairman" to "chair" or "chairperson."

In an updated Google developer "inclusive documentation" style guide, the software company previews several other hypothetical suggestions it will make, including changing entire sentences.

If a user writes the sentence, "Before launch, give everything a final sanity-check," Google will suggest writing, "Before launch, give everything a final check for completeness and clarity," instead.

Similarly, if a user writes, "There are some crazy outliers in the data," Google will advise going with, "There are some baffling outliers in the data."

The new assisted writing capabilities will also take aim at gender-exclusive language. The style guide recommends writing "Equipment installation takes around 16 person-hours to complete" rather than "Equipment installation takes around 16 man-hours to complete."

"When trying to achieve a friendly and conversational tone, problematic ableist language might slip in," the style guide explains. "This can come in the form of figures of speech and other turns of phrase."

"Be sensitive to your word choice, especially when aiming for an informal tone," the guide continues. "Ableist language includes words or phrases such as crazy, insane, blind to or blind eye to, cripple, dumb, and others. Choose alternative words depending on the context."

As for gender-inclusive language, the style guide advises that "in addition to being mindful of the pronouns used in narrative examples," users should "be sensitive to other possible sources of gendered language."

What else?

The style guide also recommends users not be "too culturally specific to the US" and to be "mindful when referring to specific holidays."

Furthermore, it advises users to "avoid referring to people in divisive ways" and "avoid using socially-charged terms for technical concepts where possible."

As examples, Google recommends users avoid "referring to people as native speakers or non-native speakers of English" and avoid using terms "such as blacklist, native feature, and first-class citizen, even though these terms might still be widely used."

Tulsi Gabbard torches her own party for 'gender-inclusive' agenda: 'Defies basic established science'



Democrat Tulsi Gabbard trashed her own party on Monday over the Democratic Party's new push for a genderless agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Gabbard was a member of the House until Sunday. She did not seek re-election after running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

What's the background?

As TheBlaze reported, Democrats unveiled proposed changes for the House rules last week, which included eliminating "gendered" language from the rules in exchange for "gender-inclusive" language.

According to House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.), "changing pronouns and familial relationships" in the official House rules is necessary in order to "honor all gender identities."

The genderless agenda became the focus of mockery after Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) ended a prayer in the House chamber on Sunday by saying "amen and a-woman."

"Amen," the traditional prayer ending, is a Hebrew word that is completely detached from biological gender. Hebrew is an inflected language, meaning grammatical gender is built into the language. Grammatical gender, of course, is not related to biological gender.

What did Gabbard say?

Speaking with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Gabbard called the genderless agenda the "height of hypocrisy" and said it reveals how out of touch Democrats are.

"It's the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women," Gabbard said.

"It's mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are," Gabbard added. "It shows that, you know, their first act as as this new Congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine ... but instead of doing something that could actually help save people's lives, they're choosing instead to say, 'Well, you can't say "mother" or "father" in any of this congressional language.' It's astounding."

The progressive attempt to undermine science by erasing gender amounts to "denying my existence, denying the existence of of biological women," Gabbard said.

"It defies common sense; it defies basic established science. It just doesn't make any sense," she explained.

Tulsi Gabbard rips 'mind blowing' House rule changes banning gendered language www.youtube.com

Anything else?

The House approved the rule changes on Monday in a vote that went down party lines.

"We made this change for the sake of inclusion, not exclusion," McGovern said of the language changes, the Hill reported.

Now, instead of words like "mother," "father," "son," "daughter," "himself," "herself," among others, the rules say "parents," "siblings," and "themselves."

House Democrat ends prayer with 'amen and a-woman,' gets destroyed when Ben Shapiro explains the meaning of 'amen'



In a demonstration of political correctness run amok, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) offered the opening prayer of the 117th Congress on Sunday — ending the invocation with "amen and a-woman."

Cleaver's shocking choice of words came after Democrats proposed eliminating all "gendered" language from the House rules, instead opting for "gender-inclusive" language. Cleaver's decision to end the prayer with supposed gender inclusivity was no doubt a nod to his party's genderless agenda.

What did Cleaver say?

Not only did Cleaver conclude the prayer with an unorthodox, supposed gender-inclusive ending, the entire prayer was riddled with politically correct statements.

In fact, Cleaver, despite being an ordained Methodist minister, appeared to endorse universalism or omnism, the idea that all religions lead to the same deity.

"We ask [these things] in the name of the monotheistic god, Brahma, and god known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and a-woman," Cleaver said to end the prayer.

Daily Congress Prayer, January 3, 2021, House guest chaplain Emanuel Cleaver: "A-man. And A-Woman." www.youtube.com

What was the reaction?

Cleaver was widely denounced for the prayer, not only because of its politically correct nature, but because his ending was not congruent with grammar.

As Ben Shapiro, an orthodox Jew, explained, the common ending used to finish prayers — "amen" — is a biblical Hebrew word that communicates affirmation or support and, in the context of prayer conclusion, means "may it be so."

"'Amen' is a Biblical Hebrew word: אמן. It is a word simply meaning 'may it be so.' It has nothing to do with the word 'man' or 'woman' because it is FROM HEBREW," Shapiro reacted. "This is some of the dumbest s*** I have ever seen in my life."

"Amen" is a Biblical Hebrew word: אמן. It is a word simply meaning "may it be so." It has nothing to do with the wo… https://t.co/Qo9OMceo3R
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In fact, biblical Hebrew is an inflected language, meaning grammatical gender is built into the language system. Grammatical gender is completely unrelated to human gender.

For example, the Hebrew word meaning "heavens/sky" is grammatically masculine, while the word meaning "earth/land" is grammatically feminine.

Grammatical gender is often a difficult concept for native English speakers to grasp because modern English is an analytical language, meaning English uses word order, prepositions, verbal voice, and other features to discern syntax and understand meaning. Old English and Middle English, however, were inflected languages, and some of the case and verb conjugation features have been retained in modern English. Some examples of this are when we add an "-s" to the end of most nouns to denote plurality, or when we add "-ed" to the end of most verbs to communicate past tense.

On the other hand, inflected languages, also known as "synthetic languages," use case, grammatical gender, verbal conjugations, and other morphological changes to discern syntax and meaning.

Democrats propose major change to House rules, eliminating family language for 'gender-inclusive' alternatives



House Democrats unveiled proposed changes to the House rules on Friday, including the elimination of all "gendered" language and to make permanent the recently established House "Office of Diversity and Inclusion."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.) claimed that "changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral" are necessary changes meant to "honor all gender identities."

The proposed changes would establish "gender-inclusive" language in the House rules by eliminating "gendered" language.

Instead of words like "father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter," the proposed rules say the House should use language like "parent, child, sibling, parent's sibling, first cousin, sibling's child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild."

The proposed rules also demand the following changes:

  • "Seafarers" instead of "seamen"
  • "Chair" instead of "chairman"
  • "Resign" instead of "submit his or her resignation"
  • "Such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner serves" instead of "he or she serves"
  • "Such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner holds" instead of "he or she holds"
  • "Themselves" instead of "himself" or "herself"

"Thanks to the leadership of Chairman McGovern and our Members, Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people," Pelosi said in a statement.

The rules will be voted on after the 117th Congress is sworn in on Sunday.

In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) mocked the proposed changes.

"This is stupid. Signed, - A father, son, and brother," McCarthy tweeted.