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🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight in French schools the words mother and father are to be replaced with the terms |
0:08.9 | parent one and parent two. I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. Hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
0:25.0 | Today we are talking about the latest news to come out of France. |
0:32.0 | Recently the French legislature took steps to |
0:34.1 | combat one of the country's most pressing social issues. No I'm not talking about |
0:38.3 | the continuing rise in the cost of living over there or the failure of immigrant |
0:42.4 | groups to assimilate or the Yellowves protests which are currently in their |
0:46.0 | 14th week. |
0:47.0 | No, instead I am referring to the scourge that is gendered language when it comes to |
0:51.1 | parental roles. |
0:52.1 | Not even kidding, as our T reports. language when it comes to parental roles. |
0:53.0 | Not even kidding, as RT reports, |
0:55.2 | apparently, quote, French schools are set to replace the words |
0:58.0 | mother and father with parent one and parent two |
1:00.9 | following an amendment to a law which passed through French Parliament this week. |
1:04.7 | The new naming convention is ostensibly aimed at ending discrimination against same-sex parents, |
1:09.3 | but critics argue that it dehumanizes parenthood and may lead to Rose over who gets classified as parent one. |
1:15.7 | That's right, France, the same country that has had over three months of pretty serious protesting, |
1:21.5 | some might say rioting, is now directing its ire to the words |
1:25.1 | mother and father. You know, as a Canadian, I personally love when European countries |
1:30.4 | like France behave like this because it makes us look a lot less crazy just by |
1:35.6 | comparison but the article continued that this amendment aims to root in |
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