Posted on 08/30/2021 5:15:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Merely existing on a college campus these days can feel like you're walking through a minefield while blindfolded and juggling nine sticks of unstable dynamite. You just never know if you're going to offend someone by blinking in a culturally appropriative fashion. Thankfully, one school has done the hard work of identifying many things that students simply must avoid saying at all costs:
A newly expanded list of language to avoid using at one ultra-woke college now warns against joking about obsessive-compulsive disorder — unless you've actually been diagnosed with it.
More than a dozen words and phrases have been added to Brandeis University's widely mocked compendium of "violent" and "identity-based" terminology ahead of the start of its fall semester on Thursday.
The list is an invaluable tool if you ever find yourself marooned on Brandeis's campus; it is now not okay, for instance, to say the phrase "I'm so OCD" unless you actually have OCD. But perhaps most surprising among the newly forbidden words is the term "African-American." Why is it now wrong to say that highly politically correct phrase?
For Black folks born in the United States, hyphenating their identity can be interpreted as othering. Some folks do prefer to use African-American, particularly in connection to their ancestral roots, while others may identify with other ethnicities. We recommend using Black as a default, but being open to adjusting if asked to.
That's right ... "othering."
It might be safer to just say nothing at all—to literally never open your mouth for any reason. Barring that, maybe just don't ever go to Brandeis.
Now enjoy a well-deserved brain break by watching our viral video, "How to speak Bidenese" 👇
VIDEO AT LINK..............................
You may be right. By today’s standards, MLK was almost a Klan member. When everything is racist, nothing is. The word is so diluted now, calling people racist has lost all meaning.
So...”Folks” is OK? It is used a number of times in this article.
Folks is non-gender specific, non-racial specific, non-ethnicity specific, so okay.....................
I think Jesse Jackson was the one who demanded we use the expression "African American" back in the 1970s. I guess by now he has passed the torch of Conscience of the United States to Al Sharpton. So someone needs to ask Rev. Al what term we honkies are supposed to use.
Crayola has 32 named colors.
None are ‘Black’
https://www.crayola.com/product-feature/colors-of-the-world
Back in the late 60’s “Afro-American” was in vogue.........................
I always liked the word darkies. It’s a general term which can be applied to a broad spectrum of people without pointing the finger at one particular variety.
I’ll try that when I’m in Philly...
(Or not) :)
I wonder what is more offensive. Is it African or American? I agree with Teddy Roosevelt though that there are no hyphenated Americans.
Which part is offensive? The African part or the American part?
Probably American......................
I’ll try that when I’m in Philly...
(Or not) :)
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Anywhere along N Broad Street (North of Spring Garden or so) should so it...
Then there's the ol' fashioned High Yellow.
I fgured I’d hit up Kensington, North Philly, and Strawberry Mansion...
It’s time for thin-skinned pity party groups to make up their mind... and I’m not talking about black people - I’m talking about white liberal ‘elite’ University know-it-alls...
Injuns called us palefaces, the movies and TV say. Andorians call us pinkskins.
Of all the black people I have known they always referred to themselves as black, And of particular amusement was supervising a new college graduate from Bahamas had to check off boxes with “African American” as race. He is neither African or American. And Africa and America are locations. This stuff is so stupid,
I remember a cartoon many years ago in which a white kid asked a black kid if he preferred to be called colored, black, African American, etc.; he responded that he'd rather be called Randy.
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