Brave new words are are threatening the ways we describe families

LZ Granderson: In the novel "Brave New World," people loathed and shunned words like mother, father and family.

LZ: We’re allowing ourselves to be led in that direction because we mistakenly think a noble goal of “inclusion” requires it.

He says the recent controversy over Roald Dahl’s books stems from a publisher removing racist material from his books.

Lz: Take a step, though it be small, down the road to a “Brave New world”.

Cassandra Hedelius: Could we get to the point that calling someone “mother’s” would be considered offensive like a slur? She hopes not, but I wouldn’t rule it out. A few years ago, I never would have dreamed anyone would justify editing mother and father’ out of a children’s book because it was “damaging’ and “harmful.” If our society is deciding that “inclusion” means “removing and condemning any reference to previous norms,” making “Mother” verboten is a logical next step.