Technically, they believe that saying "person of" in front of the classifications is "person-first" language, which conveys proper respect for the ultimate value of the person who is being classified.
Of course, we're not speaking fucking Latin, so positional meaning isn't really the same. In English, you can reorder words much more frequently without appreciably altering meaning.
Plainly: this particular dynamic is just a trap for catching and destroying older conservatives.
If people first language was actually important they’d implement it for everybody. Person of Asian decent, person of whiteness, person who’s ancestors lived in America before people of whiteness arrived, etc... You never see this kind of language because it doesn’t matter.
Technically, they believe that saying "person of" in front of the classifications is "person-first" language, which conveys proper respect for the ultimate value of the person who is being classified.
Of course, we're not speaking fucking Latin, so positional meaning isn't really the same. In English, you can reorder words much more frequently without appreciably altering meaning.
Plainly: this particular dynamic is just a trap for catching and destroying older conservatives.
If people first language was actually important they’d implement it for everybody. Person of Asian decent, person of whiteness, person who’s ancestors lived in America before people of whiteness arrived, etc... You never see this kind of language because it doesn’t matter.