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Article for Thursday, March 20th, 2008: What's in a Name?
"Language, the glue that cements concepts in place" Gist: laughing and/or telling racial or cultural jokes help keep erroneous concepts about a particular group of people concreted in our mind. If I refer to you as “it”, you’d be offended and rightly so. “It” is something inanimate or dead, like a coffee table or a lamp. A reference of “it” robs the subject of value. By referring to animals in this manner, we, in effect, distance ourselves from them and thus make it easier to exploit them. By adopting the simple practice of referring to animals by the proper pronoun of “he” or “she”, we’ll find our feelings about the way we treat them have changed as well.
Samantha Black, Animal Life Editor
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