Trudeau is serious about equal rights!
Trudeau is a self-confessed feminist
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is serious about equal rights. The man has not only equipped his cabinet exactly half with women (hello, Mrs Merkel, would not that also be a model for Germany?), He also supports the #Metoo movement, is committed to women's rights around the globe - and at the June G7 summit in Canada, he wants to put feminism at the top of the agenda.
As an avowed feminist, Trudeau also knows that language plays a central role in promoting equality. Because language shapes our thinking.
So he has recently enforced that the Canadian national anthem is sung gender neutral.
And at a citizens' consultation, he has once again made clear how central a gender-neutral language is for the equal rights of women and men.
"Peoplekind" instead of "Mankind" - for many too much of a good thing
At an event in Edmonton, Canada, he advised a woman in the audience who had asked him a question, "Humanity? not the word "mankind", but the term "peoplekind? to use. The woman had ended her question about the charitable status of religious foundations with the sentence:
?Mother love is the love that will change the future of humanity"- for" humanity "she used the word" mankind ".
Thereupon Trudeau:We like to say "peoplekind" and not? mankind? because it includes all."
Is Trudeau a hypocritical git?
Presumably, conservative media accused him of doing so with the Political correctness to exaggerate. Trudeau was also attacked on Twitter. The Mormon Chet Cannon, for example, wrote under the clip that shows the scene:
"See how Trudeau corrects a girl because it says 'mankind', where he prefers the integrative 'pepolekind', he's such a hypocritical git.?
Watch Trudeau chat with a teen girl for saying? he he prefers the more inclusive?
He is one sanctimonious git pic.twitter.com/O66W8rT5kK
The power of words
Although Trudeau was not quite adept at rebukeing the young woman in front of the world, she thanked him with the words, "Yes, you're right, thank you." The audience received the applause from the audience.
And we also applaud him. Because it is good to make us aware that sexism is so normal that we often hardly notice it. And that we need to raise awareness of our words.
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