USA Today published a piece that explored the usage of cultural phrases such as 'aloha' by individuals not from that culture. The author argued such speech can be offensive.
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"What we need is a critical consciousness in our public around language," Jeffrey McCune, director of the Frederick Douglass Institute of African & African-American Studies at the University of Rochester told Oliver."Language is too critical to our culture, that we can't just casually use language in ways that might offend and/or even harm, do harm to certain groups of people.
McCune continued,"We have a responsibility to be somewhat judicious with our language, and to have care for what we do with language." "It's the larger cultural considerations around the use of these words that matter most," Oliver wrote.Joe Silverstein is a production assistant for Fox News Digital.
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