What?

[Parasaurolophus]

Why doesn't the woke movement then simply work to cancel French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian et al then? It would seem, by their definition, English has the least oppression in it.
ETA: Or at least identify those languages as unacceptable.

Plenty of languages have a neuter gender. English struggles a bit there, too, although it benefits from not having gendered nouns.

Besides, those languages have been cancelled at any number of Anglophone universities, and sometimes in the broader culture too (remember freedom fries?). Beyond that sort of triviality, the answer is, of course, obvious.

[jimbogumbo]

Some have no feminine/masculine pronoun at all. Hungarian, for example. Many of my math colleagues who grew up speaking Hungarian never got the hang of she/he at all.

[mahagonny]

Some have no feminine/masculine pronoun at all. Hungarian, for example. Many of my math colleagues who grew up speaking Hungarian never got the hang of she/he at all.

The woke should require everyone to speak Hungarian.

Why doesn't the woke movement then simply work to cancel French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian et al then? It would seem, by their definition, English has the least oppression in it.
ETA: Or at least identify those languages as unacceptable.

Plenty of languages have a neuter gender. English struggles a bit there, too, although it benefits from not having gendered nouns.

Besides, those languages have been cancelled at any number of Anglophone universities, and sometimes in the broader culture too (remember freedom fries?). Beyond that sort of triviality, the answer is, of course, obvious.

Not obvious. Well, a couple of guesses. (1) They're leaving it for later. (2) They don't really have an ideological vision. They're just looking for a subterfuge for the more free government money fantasy (3) They're good at thinking up radical visions for societal change, and not quite that good about thinking of the work involved, aside from stealing from retail stores with already broken windows and posting on Facebook.