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Woke Stanford University Releases List of ‘Harmful’ and ‘Racist’ Words To Eliminate – Includes American
Increasingly many educators who have been entrusted to prepare young Americans for their desired careers, and/or various causes, have abanded reality for social justice insanity.
Stanford University is a perfect example of a sought-after university whose leadership is drunk on radical Kool-Aid.
The beautiful campus is located in the spiritually dark region of our nation, the bay area, specifically in Palo Alto, CA, the tech hub of Silicon Valley.
In May, the leadership published an index of ‘harmful language’ that it wants to eliminate because the terms are ‘ableist, ageist or racist’ — including the word American — as it calls for US citizen to be used instead.
The University’s ridiculous plan includes replacing unapproved terms with newly approved words and phrases, on all university computer systems and websites.
The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative will also aim to educate people about the impact that ‘racist, violent and biased’ words have.
The guide, titled “The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” featured “10 ‘harmful language’ sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.’”
The ‘woke’ guide was released earlier this year but the Wall Street Journal opinion piece made the ‘list’ to go viral.
For sheer silliness, this "guide" is hard to beat. https://t.co/Kw6jjpWOyw
— Brit Hume (@brithume) December 20, 2022
Stanford University eliminated the word “American” because “This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)”
The words “brave” and “grandfather” and “long time, no see” because they are insensitive to indigenous peoples and women.
Below is a partial list of banned words:
Original: walk-in
Swap: drop-in, open office
Reason: ‘Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with disabilities’
Original: grandfather
Swap: legacy
Reason: ‘This term has its roots in the “grandfather clause” adopted by Southern states to deny voting rights to Blacks’
Original: guru
Swap: expert, subject matter expert (SME), primary, leader, teacher, guide
Reason: ‘In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the word is a sign of respect. Using it casually negates its original value’
Original: brave
Swap: none/do not use
Reason: ‘This term perpetuates the stereotype of the “noble courageous savage,” equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man’
Original: man hours
Swap: person hours, effort hours, labor time
Reason: ‘This term reinforces male-dominated language’
Original: American
Swap: US Citizen
Reason: ‘This term often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries)’
Original: whitespace
Swap: empty space
Reason: ‘Assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized’
Original: prostitute
Swap: person who engages in sex work
Reason: ‘Using person-first language helps to not define people by just one of their characteristics
Original: kill(ing) two birds with one stone
Swap: accomplish(ing) two things at once
Reason: ‘This expression normalizes violence against animals’
Original: trigger warning
Swap: content note
Reason: ‘The phrase can cause stress about what’s to follow. Additionally, one can never know what may or may not trigger a particular person’
For those of us who live in what the late great Rush Limbaugh called, Reallville, the future of our great nation is increasingly at risk with each graduating class on Marxists, and social justice activists from propaganda portals like Standford University.