Blog post 9: Discriminatory language

It is sad to think that discrimination still happens and often times it happens without any real intent to offend. No matter where we look there may be something that is racist, ageist, heterosexist, or sexist being presented whether in text, pictures or video. As others have mentioned in their posts throughout this presidential election we have heard many things about age, race, gender, etc. yet what I really loved that the book said is, "This is not a matter of being politically correct. It is a matter of being human."

Everyone we associate ourselves with deserves respect. Anyone we see deserves respect. Though we don't understand them or agree with the way they live their lives we have no need to disrespect them. This truly is a matter of being human.

I commit myself to be more careful when speaking or writing to not discriminate in any way. Though it has become more socially acceptable to say certain things we need to recognize that language changes as society does. We each need to be willing to adapt to those changes. Mistakes will happen but we can right our wrongs.

In one of my classes last semester we reviewed the popular Super Bowl commercials and found that there were many that were controversial or considered discriminatory because of the timing of things. At that time there was a big movement for #Blacklivesmatter and many commercials either supported the movement or were against it. Language changes through time.

There was one commercial in particular I remember watching and at first glance I didn't think much of it. As we reviewed it more I understood why it was a discriminatory commercial. I will leave it here for you to state your opinion about this commercial.