Posted on 12/22/2022 2:41:56 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Stanford University is scrambling to respond to backlash following reports that an internal guide of removing "harmful language" from the school's online materials included the term "American."
Seeking to "eliminate many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased... language in Stanford websites and code," the guide labelled the term "American" as "imprecise" given it "often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas."
The term "American" is a common shorthand for people from the United States and no other country in the Western Hemisphere frequently uses it as an identifier for their citizens.
Now, Stanford has asserted that the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, under which the directive fell, did not represent a mandatory policy, but was merely part of an internal document intended for discussion between members of the school's IT department.
"First and importantly, the website does not represent university policy. It also does not represent mandates or requirements," said Stanford Chief Information Officer Steve Gallagher, per the Washington Times. "This guide for the university’s IT community is undergoing continual review."
"The spirit behind it, from the beginning, has been to be responsive to feedback and to consider adjustments based on that feedback," he went on. "We value the input we have been hearing, from a variety of perspectives, and will be reviewing it thoroughly and making adjustments to the guide."
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Too late Stanford!
I, and no doubt millions like me, after reading this report, have “Stanford” on our FY list “forever”. Disrespect America and get disrespected back. It’s that simple.
Stanford can go to hell.
AMEN! Stop patronizing these so-called elite universities. Your children may get great high-paying jobs, but they will loose their soul.
If I had to do it again, I’d probably choose to study abroad.
The problem is caused by the fact that “United Statesian” sounds extremely stupid.
They tested limits and had to back up a little. But they are not finished with this.
I get that, but it really isn’t about “feeling superior” by calling ourselves by the general term “American”.
It is about, what else can we call ourselves?
Unitedstatesians? United’s? Statesians?
In many ways our national name is poor, so we have to use the best word in this long phrase.
Meanwhile all those other Latinos….have a unique national name that does not include “America”.
Stanford has it right in this one case. If you live in North, Central, or South America, you are...yeah...an American. But Stanford can take a long walk off a short pier for their virtue-signaling, woke idiocy.
Possibly for a STEM graduate degree. Otherwise, yeah, no thanks.
Wait a minute ... What about the United States of Mexico? That is; Estados Unidos de Mexico.
So, let's be more specific. We are from the United States of America! But doesn't that put us right back where we started? Woke-ism is so confusing.
How about: The United States of Not Mexico? That has a nice politically correct ring to it.
University academics screw up everything.
Yes, Latinos seem to be most concerned by this. Some would like us to use a form of ‘United Statesian’ instead. But there is a United States of Brazil and for a time Mexico styled itself the United States of Mexico and now is the United Mexican States. But as has been pointed out, we are the only nation to have America in its name.
This is literally how the “Overton Window” works. You put an idea in play, back off a hair, then it is normalized a little more each year.
“Stanford” should become the name used for a male Karen.
As a baseball fan, and knowing how woke the Commissioner is, I’m looking forward to Spring Training for the U.S. Citizen League teams.
These folks need to play in the California Penal League.
I guess the idiots at Stanford are too stupid to know that the United States of America is the only country in this hemisphere that has the word ‘America’ in its name.
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