I am part of a good, traditional Jets hockey-loving family, and we loved the Whiteout parties to celebrate the Jets' playoff games that we attended last year. 'Nobody likes change'Linguist George Lakoff argues that geniality and consensus in discourse tend to flourish in homogeneous societies, or where one homogeneous group controls public discourse. Not coincidentally, they are being critiqued for speaking up and trying to find a place in an increasingly diverse public discourse. This is not a call to abolish Whiteout parties, but is it going to hurt anything to call it a Blizzard or a Snowstorm? Could we agree not to summon racist catch phrases like "make Winnipeg white again"?

Source: CBC News April 18, 2019 10:00 UTC