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Aussie Language

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

24 July 2021

9:00 AM

Talking to Peta Credlin on Sky News I coined a new expression, ‘language communists’. I used to call the bullies who want to force us to change the words we use ‘language fascists’, but I want to acknowledge that these aggressive campaigners for novel pronouns and the banning of such words as ‘wife’, ‘husband’, ‘mother’ and ‘father’ come from the Left, not from the Right.

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