# Negroni to be banned?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 11, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negroni-to-be-banned/981043 "2023-03-11T21:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negroni-to-be-banned/981043/59 "2023-03-13T17:03:56Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Where one draws that line is a matter of personal opinion.

Which is what I’m offering. Others are offering theirs. And among those who have offered their views is John McWhorter, a renowned linguist specializing in language change who should not be casually dismissed. As he writes in an article in **[_The Atlantic_](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/brandeis-language-police-have-suggestions-you/619347/)**,

> … according to counsel from Brandeis University’s Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center, or PARC, considerate people must go further [than gender-neutral terminology]: Apparently, we must retire _victim, survivor, trigger warning_, and _African-American_ too. We must do so, that is, if we seek to ignore some linguistic fundamentals while also engaging in distinctly callow sociological calisthenics. When we are to even “consider” avoiding the word _prisoner_ (try _person who was incarcerated_) or _walk-in_ (because not all people can walk) and the phrase _everything going on right now_ (I’ll leave you to find out what’s wrong with that one), we are being preached to by people on a quest to change reality through the performative policing of manners.

McWhorter concludes as follows:

> But these sanctions are based on no general agreement among even sensitive, sociologically concerned people. Couched as compassionate counsel, this list is mostly a series of prim concoctions by people who, one suspects, simply need more to do. In the end, working to change conditions is much more important than obsessively curating the words and expressions we use to describe them.

And I agree that the OP is silly but the side discussion that it triggered is not.

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