Posted on 03/03/2017 7:16:24 AM PST by C19fan
Cardiff University in the UK has told students and staff to avoid gendered words like “sportsmanship” and “manpower,” also saying that “first name” or “forename” is preferable to “Christian name.”
The inclusive-language guidelines, which have been in place for a few years but were first reported by the Telegraph Thursday, are an effort to “promote fairness and equality through raising awareness about potentially discriminatory vocabulary.”
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Censorship and banning words, can book burnings be far behind?
Did they rename their Department of History?
you know I always wanted to go to the UK but now I have no interest in that at all. They are finished as a country, it is a shame. This is where the Magna Carta was written and so much more. It is a shame.
Isn’t this cultural genocide?
The left using political correctness to destroy western culture.
next think you know they will ban wog and poof
That’s a good one!
These uni folk must hate other cultures, many of whose languages have gender built in.
Or maybe straight to execution for the “word offenders.”
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