Victimhood Culture vs. NZ Sign Language

August 27, 2019

By NZB3

The Victimhood Culture quest for new things to be offended about goes ever deeper into uncharted territory.

Now they’re so hungry for new food they’re reforming New Zealand Sign Language to be more PC! As it turns out, it’s a rich vein of delightfully non-Politically Correct discourse to tap too. You can see for yourself with the New Zealand Sign Language Dictionary online.

I think the sign for Te Reo Maori is supposed to be some version of “blah blah blah.” Very un-PC. But remember these guys were locked up in jail for 100 years. And that jail was in Christchurch..

NZSL was created as a slave language by prisoners of the New Zealand State during their enforced captivity in the course of 100 years.- 1880: Silencing the Deaf; AHNZ

Here are some more I discovered…

Milking the public teat or…something more sexually explicit?

“A good dictionary documents language usage, it doesn’t attempt to be the arbiter of the correct and only way to say things.”

“McKee pointed out that the hook-nosed sign for Jew is marked as being an “older variation” on the dictionary website and a newer one evokes a beard instead. Chinese, Gay and Samoan also have alternative signs in the dictionary.”- Expert urges caution on sign language controversy; Newsroom