This may be the dumbest thing in the history of dumb things. It’s an app that promises to help you “find gender favouring, polarising, race related, religion inconsiderate, or other unequal phrasing” in your writing. No, seriously.
Just for fun, I plugged in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”—and guess what? Dr. King’s missive contains no fewer than 123 microaggressions. Number 81 is my favorite: “Lord may be insensitive, use Official, Owner, Expert, Superior, Chief, Ruler instead.” How in the world did the good reverend manage to pray without the benefit of this powerful tool?
I just hope to God (sorry!) Chief it’s a hoax.
