Sure, calling a singular entity “they” is a change in grammatical sensibilities that might be distasteful or hard to adopt. Words are arrows and we have long used “man” to point to one kind of person and “woman” to point to another. But those arrows are now under revision from a culture that finds them inaccurate and a biological reality that reveals them to be inaccurate.
Those who support Mr. Trump and who object to definitional revision on this subject do not otherwise suffer from semantic orthodoxy, generally defining people and ideas in whatever way suits them.
Here I do not mean labeling all Democratic pedophiles. This is just basic slander, like calling everyone on the the left commies.
Instead, I mean the serious will it takes to insist Colin Kapernick’s target was the troops or to pretend “all lives matter” is a claim of inclusion. Somehow understanding history and each other— “woke’’—now just means “evil.”
But then it takes cognitive cajones of a transitional kind to say that smashing windows and defecating in offices is tourism.
And though these word police forgo “Two Corinthians,” they take their essential logos from a deity who is three in one: father, son, and spirit. No one, I guess, is made in the image of their “they” god.