Rex Murphy: CBC, as you will have seen from the photo above, has put out an alarm about certain lexical crimes, pointing to words and phrases that all sweet, open-minded human beings should never allow in their vocabulary, or scribble in some essay to CBC Opinion — this latter a kind of larder of the best that can be thought or said for sublimely sensitive social justice aspirants. If Queen Street, Toronto, was the world, CBC Opinion would own the globe.
The beloved CBC is in a hard place, being crippled by what looks very much like an attempt to hold it up to a kind of lexical or semantic blackmail . The CBC’s unfailing mission to educate the Canadian public as to its incontestable ideas of right and wrong, to bathe its listeners and readers in its blinding vision of Canadian enlightenment — it hurts to tap the keys on the laptop to write this — is being mocked!
Alas, it is the case that the rich tribe of consultants employed by the CBC to make sure Canadian English never falls into bad-speak is being pilloried on Twitter and elsewhere as lame , and even (shudder) tone deaf .
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