MS Word Goes WOKE Adds Inclusivity Checking Suggests Alternatives

MS Word Goes Woke. The folks at Microsoft want to help the world be more woke. So now, the tech giant has added an additional feature which reads through a user’s work and examines whether the language used may offend an individual. After highlighting the inclusivity issue, Word’s new functionality will suggest more acceptable alternatives which includes changing Postman Pat to ‘mail carrier’ or ‘postal worker’. The writing software also suggested altering astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous quote from ‘one giant leap for mankind’ to ‘humankind’ or ‘humanity’ instead. 😥

Joe Rogan and Peter Attia reacts to Microsoft ‘WOKE’ Video & on corporate Wokeness. Video credit Joe Rogan/YouTube.

While researching this article I came across this link to a Microsoft forum discussion titled Woke Word, ****? – Microsoft Community, that when clicking on returned a 403 Permission Denied HTTP error. The discussion must have gotten so heated, MS shut it down, I imagine the news of a “Woke Edition” of Word must have gone over like a fart in church! 😆 Theirs’s no other reason to shut it down!

The Daily Mail reports: MS Word goes woke. Microsoft introduces a new feature that suggests PC alternatives when someone types phrases that could offend snowflakes like ‘mankind’ or astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous quote from ‘one giant leap for mankind’ to ‘humankind’ or ‘humanity’ instead. It does this by highlighting phrases focusing on gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity of ‘socioeconomic status’. The function, which produces a purple line beneath words or phrases it deems to be potentially problematic, can be turned on and off in Word’s settings. Microsoft Word also used red lines to point out spelling mistakes and green lines for grammatical errors. After highlighting the inclusivity issue, Word’s new functionality will suggest more acceptable alternatives – which includes changing Postman Pat to ‘mail carrier’ or ‘postal worker’.