Stanford releases guide to eliminate 'harmful language,' cautions against calling US citizens 'American'

Fox News ^ | 12/20/2022 | Landon Mion

[Signalman]

Stanford University published an index of "harmful language" it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements.

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a "multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford," according to the guide.

Many of the terms in the index offered longer alternatives for terms that described a person by one characteristic. These terms include replacing "immigrant" with "a person who has immigrated," "prisoner" with "a person who is/was incarcerated" and "homeless person" with "a person without housing."

Other terms deemed harmful in this section include "abort," which offers the replacement of "cancel" or "end," because of moral concerns about abortion; "child prostitute" is replaced with a "child who has been trafficked," so the person is not defined by just one characteristic; and "Karen" is replaced with "demanding or entitled White woman."

The guide says its goal is to eliminate "many forms of harmful language," including "racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language" in Stanford websites and code. It added that it strives to educate people on the impact of words.

There are 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.

Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term, "American." People are instead asked to use "U.S. Citizen" because "American" typically refers to "people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas." The Americas, the index notes, comprises 42 countries.

[BenLurkin]

Never call liberals Americans - they aren’t.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Is “Amerikan” okay?

[Nextrush]

And the Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford is someone named Condoleezza Rice.

[dsrtsage]

Leftists destroy everything they touch like a creeping virus encapsulating everything in rotting bubbling vines and tentacles sucking the life out of anything in its path like a clan of vampires

[GOPJ]

Well, if their students are a disappointment and their great professors are all over 60 might as well print out hate ‘studies’.

Can we assume the next one will deal with grooming children?

[Sarcazmo]

The commies continue their stomp through our institutions. They’re almost finished too.

[Aevery_Freeman]

<>"terms deemed harmful in this section include "abort," which offers the replacement of "cancel" or "end""<>

In coding, cancel, end and abort mean different things.

We have lost our F-ing minds!

[Steely Tom]

Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.

— Conquest's Second Law

[Jhadur]

If I only wanted to expose myself to abuse, I would create a Fox News account and hammer them with a long list of what if’s regarding offensive terms. I grew up in northern Michigan, so trust me, I’m well acquainted with a great many of them.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Get stuffed Stanford.

[alexander_busek]

'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take "good", for instance. If you have a word like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad"? "Ungood" will do just as well -- better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of "good", what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like "excellent" and "splendid" and all the rest of them? "Plusgood" covers the meaning, or "doubleplusgood" if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there'll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words -- in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston? It was B.B.'s idea originally, of course,' he added as an afterthought.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

I grew up in northern Michigan, so trust me, I’m well acquainted with a great many of them.

Yeah, you Yoopers have a pretty salty patois!

Regards,

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

In my line of work, I deal with a lot of non-citizens. I have never heard a person from Korea or Vietnam or India refer to himself as Asian. I have never heard a person from Poland or Ukraine or Serbia refer to himself as European. And I have never heard a person from Mexico or Brazil or Canada refer to himself as American. However, I do know a person from Jordan who became a U.S. citizen and she says she is no longer Jordanian, but American. She gets it.

I am from the north of the United States, or, if you will, the upper part. If I am ever at Stanford and someone asks me my citizenship, I will say, “Uppa U.S.” I don’t normally soften my r’s, but I will make an exception in this case.

[ADemocratNoMore]

AMERICA - F Yeah !!!!!

Here’s the whole POS document...

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf

[William of Barsoom]

I used the word “normal” the other day in front of a glowing, festering Liberal — and “THEY” just about burst!

“Boy”-o-”Boy,” Did I get a lecture!!

[DPMD]

Stanford has no choice; the school sees itself as the Harvard of the West and must follow along with any moronic policy to come out of Cambridge.

[sauropod]

/eyeroll

[KrisKrinkle]

If they want to eliminate harmful language they should suggest that Democrats-liberals-progressives-leftists shut up.

[Bookshelf]

Leland Stanford was a tough strong-willed SOB of the type that built America. Stanford University is a week-willed pussy-whipped junior college that given the chance would destroy America.