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Misuse of power and tenure and mediocrity. nobody can use that word in my presence, could that fly? could i pull it off? >> if you have a writing guide and you put that out there. people agree with you, then,h yeah, maybe. maybe that would fly. but purdue university did find a group that agreed with them. the university backed them up and there you have it. they have a writing guide. its going to teach us how to not offend. >> tucker: do you think they have the guts? its one thing to bully the l...

Guide perhaps and you put that out there and people agree with you then, yeah, maybe, maybe that bo would fly. the university backed them up and there you have it they have a writing guide that now is going to teach us how to not offend. >> tucker: but do you think they i have the guts, i mean, its one thing to bully the little rich kids who go to your school because like what do they know? >> this is indiana. this is the heart of america. >> tucker: of course. if you are paying like 60 grand or...

>> m-a-i-l. >> can you change a vowel but it sounds the same. has that dreaded word that sends people shrieking for safe space male. >> think are saying man. man is the word that they are trying to avoid. they are saying that the word man is associated with adult men as opposed to just humanity or humans. so, they are trying to avoid the word man so if we could eliminate that word, then things would be much better and people would be less ongegded. offended. >> tucker: what if you lived in manch...

Personally. >> right. >> tucker: you have to change it. so doesnt that mean that a small group of super unhappy people get to control what the rest of us say and think? >> perhaps they are ahead of their time. maybe this is something that is offending a small group but the group is going to get larger and times are changing. and our language is dynamic. webster keeps adding new words in the dictionary. so our language needs to change. and a term that used to be non-offensive like man made and ma...

Somebody even if you have never met that person personally, you have to change it. doesnt that mean that a small group of super unhappy people get to control what people say and think? >> perhaps this is something that is offending a small group but the group is going to get larger and our language is dynamic. webster keeps adding new words and our language that needs to change. a term like manmade and mailman now needs to be changed. >> tucker: i get that. but the question for me is who gets to...

Perhaps and you put that out there and people agree with you, then maybe that would fly. but purdue university found a group that agreed with them and the university backed them up and there you have it. they have a writing guide that will teach us how not to offend. >> tucker: its one thing to bully the little rich kids that go to your school. >> this is indiana. this is the heart of america. >> tucker: of course. but if you are paying 60 grand for the fake diploma you get and you are not worki...

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They updated that writing guide to take out these words that are offending certain groups of people. >> tucker: just to make sure i understand the rule, if something offends somebody, even if you never met that person personally, you have to change it. of super unhappy people get to control what the rest of us say and think? >> if its something offending a small group, the group is going to get larger, times are our language is dynamic. webster keeps adding new words. our language needs to chang...