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Started 5/26/22 by WALTER784; 9400 views.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
Speech police at woke Stanford cancel words like ‘American’ and ‘man,’ claim they constitute ‘harmful language’
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) The far-left world of academia, long taken over by Communists and Marxists hell-bent on destroying the freest society in the world, is continuing its attack on every aspect of our country, especially our language.
The latest example of the left’s cultural destruction is occurring at woke Stanford University, where a new ‘speech guide’ has removed words like “American” and “man” over the ridiculous claim that they constitute “harmful language.”
The Epoch Times noted in a report:
The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans on eliminating from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with.
Stanford published in May what it calls its “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” (EHLI) a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the guide revealed by The Wall Street Journal.
The attempted changes to the English language are part of a decades-long campaign by far-left groups to impose Marxist “critical theory” on the whole of society, resulting in the “woke” movement.
By any measure, the culture warriors are winning — and what’s more, they have no plans to take their feet off the gas pedal.
“EHLI is one of the actions prioritized in the Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council (CIOC) and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group in December 2020,” the guide says without a shred of irony, noting that any group designed by skin color is, in and of itself, patently racist.
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The overarching stated objective of the EHLI project is to deep six “many forms of harmful language,” such as “racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language in Stanford websites and code” (again, not a single hint of irony here).
The university website explained that the purpose of the guide was, ostensibly, to ‘educate’ people on the alleged impact of words and that the “suggested alternatives” aligned with those implemented by “peer institutions within the technology community.”
See, it’s not important to train and educate people in the field of technology if they have no idea how to use the ‘proper pronouns’ or shun ‘words that hurt.’
“According to the university, EHLI is part of a ‘multi-phase’ project compiled by Stanford’s IT leaders, which took ’18 months of collaboration with stakeholder groups’ to complete,” The Epoch Times reported.
Translation: Collaboration with anti-white, left-wing groups.
Unbelievably, the index’s preface contains this ‘warning’ for users: “This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace.”
The guide goes on to invent terms as well as a reason for people to be ‘offended’.
“Ableist language is language that is offensive to people who live with disabilities and/or devalues people who live with disabilities. The unintentional use of such terms furthers the belief that people who live with disabilities are abnormal,” the guide says.
In addition, and of course, students and Stanford U staffers are strongly advised to downplay their own nationality by shunning the word “American,” instead being advised to use the term “U.S. citizen,” lest it be ‘insulting’ to people at the school who are not Americans. The guide says there are 42 countries in the Americas and that ‘American’ only applies to citizens of the United States, thereby suggesting that citizens of those other countries are somehow less valuable.
The guide says not to use the word “abort” because it may ‘trigger’ concerns about “abortion.” The guide advises people to use
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
It looks like they learned very quickly about their actions... perhaps every woke attempt needs to be met with a big backlash!!!
Stanford University Walks Back Plan to Eliminate ‘Racist’ and ‘Harmful’ Words Like ‘American,’ ‘Grandfather’ After Backlash
By Cristina Laila
Published December 26, 2022 at 8:20pm
The woke losers at Stanford University recently released a list of ‘harmful language’ to eliminate in an effort to be more sensitive to marginalized groups.
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.
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:
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
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Host
From: Showtalk
Jan-8
Didn’t I post about that earlier? It’s not going well for them. They are getting lots of ridicule.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-8
There is so much wokeness going on, it's hard to keep track of all of it.
FWIW
From: Dee (DLAINEDEE)
Jan-8
This is so 1984. They'll get their way eventually, considering, Eric Blair, on his death bed, said his book was not fiction...
Staff
From: WALTER784
Jan-8
They will continue trying... and we need to continue providing a large backlash against their attempts!
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
Jan-13
'Brotherboy' and 'sistergirl': Oxford Dictionary adds 18 new LGBT words in 2022
Terms include 'teahouse,' pangender,' 'multisexual' and 'TERF'
By WND News Services
Published December 27, 2022 at 12:51pm
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added 18 new LGBTQ+ entries in 2022, including words like gender-affirming, multisexual, top and bottom.
The OED added nearly 2,000 words in the past year, according to announcements from March, June and September, with 18 of those words updated or added to specifically define ever-evolving LGBTQ+ terms. In March, OED added anti-gay and anti-homosexual, with the former receiving a specific definition while anti-homosexual was listed only as a subcategory.
“Opposed or hostile to homosexual people (sometimes specifically gay men) or homosexuality,” OED’s anti-gay definition states.
OED also added several words specific to other countries for the LGBTQ+ community, according to LGBTQ Nation. Bakla, the Philippine term for a biological male who identifies as a female, was added in June along with Muxe, pronounced moo-shay, which is from Mexican culture for a biological man who identifies as female, and Australian terms brotherboy and sistergirl.
“A brotherboy is a person registered as female at birth who identifies with or presents a masculine gender expression, typically through behaviours, occupations, modes of dress, etc., that are culturally associated with masculinity’ and a sistergirl was assigned male at birth and presents in ways associated with femininity,” the definition states.
Teahouse was included as a U.S. slang term to refer to a public toilet in which gay men “solicit” or “engage” in sexual behavior with one another. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist or TERF, created in 2008, was given an additional note stating that the term is considered derogatory to the LGBTQ community.
The dictionary added pangender to define a person who identifies as multiple genders and changes between them in a fluid manner. The term is not to be confused with the 2018 definition of pansexual, which is the emotional and physical attraction to individuals regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Top and bottom have been in the OED for years, but were recently updated to include new sub-definitions.
“The 12a intransitive verb sense of bottom in the OED is now ‘to take the role of the more submissive partner in bondage, domination, or sadomasochism’ and 12b is ‘originally and chiefly among gay men: to be the partner who is penetrated in (esp. anal) sex,'” LGBTQ Nation explains. “For top, multiple new definitions were also added, including ‘to take a dominant role over (one’s partner) in bondage, domination, or sadomasochism’ and ‘to be the partner who penetrates the other in sex between men (often with the implication of being the more dominant or active partner).'”
The word gender was given several new sub-definitions including gender-affirming and gender critical, while gender expression and gender presentation were also added under the same definition. Multisexual describes a person that is attracted to multiple individuals with different “gender identities” or sexes, according to LGBTQ Nation.
The Oxford Dictionary did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
'Brotherboy' and 'sistergirl': Oxford Dictionary adds 18 new LGBT words in 2022 (wnd.com)
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From: Showtalk
Jan-13
Who decides what words are the right ones to use? USC banned the use of the word “field” because of associations with slavery and going out to the field. They replaced it with the word Practicum, which means nothing to most people. I was taking to some college students and one studies archaeology. Fieldwork means going on a dig. There is no other word to explain what they are doing. It’s becoming too bizarre, not to mention how are we supposed to remember or know the correct words when they change constantly? People are not going to remember or even know.
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From: WALTER784
Jan-13
The more they attempt to change things for the better, they end up breaking something else which then needs to be changed again to break yet something else again! (* CHUCKLE *)
And it's all because a minority of people feel offended by the use of a certain word.
Just remind them all... I'm offended by all these changes so put everything back like it was and let those who feel offended continue to feel offended, otherwise I and the majority will be offended!!!
FWIW
- Edited January 13, 2023 8:25 pm by WALTER784
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