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University tells students not to use the term "African-American" because it's now offensive
https://notthebee.com ^ | Aug 29th, 2021 9:05 am | Daniel Payne

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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: blm; cancelculture; doublestandard; othering; racism; wboopi
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To: GreenHornet

don’t forget Edgar.


101 posted on 08/30/2021 6:56:12 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: ronniesgal

“Oi’m blek, oi’m prood, an’ oi’m Oirish.”


102 posted on 08/30/2021 6:59:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: All

So “colored” is OK again, now?!

Asking for TalcumX...


103 posted on 08/30/2021 6:59:59 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: gitmo

So is ‘Asiatic’.....................


104 posted on 08/30/2021 7:00:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

So we’re back to describing people by their skin color, which by the way should not be capitalized and does not actually describe skin color in the vast majority of cases? I’ve yet to meet a “white” person whose skin was the color of milk or a “black” person whose skin was not actually some shade of brown.


105 posted on 08/30/2021 7:01:39 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: Sirius Lee

Jaysus. that hurts me ears.


106 posted on 08/30/2021 7:04:03 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: Red Badger

MadTV “Race Ghost”

https://youtu.be/zrbzVkwyiNM


107 posted on 08/30/2021 7:17:49 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Red Badger

Well we all know the “American” part is right. Quelle 🔥🐂💩


108 posted on 08/30/2021 7:20:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Red Badger

Victim-American has a nice ring to it when you’re in a gimme stuff frame of mind.


109 posted on 08/30/2021 7:20:46 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Red Badger

Seems they’re just gonna have to go back to negro it seems.


110 posted on 08/30/2021 7:23:15 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Red Badger

From now on, just say “that guy”


111 posted on 08/30/2021 7:25:56 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2 )
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To: Red Badger
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 ...

Sorry, Payne, but you're contributing to the problem by capitalizing "black".

112 posted on 08/30/2021 7:29:13 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Dutch Boy

I suspect “Skin color is irrelevant” is considered racist these days as well.


113 posted on 08/30/2021 7:31:12 AM PDT by glennaro (Dennis Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never")
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To: Red Badger

Blacks seek to keep the agenda on skin color to divert attention from their failing cultural values.


114 posted on 08/30/2021 7:36:58 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Red Badger

i’ve lived thru colored, negro, black, af/am and “poc”, i’m done...


115 posted on 08/30/2021 7:38:25 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: monocle

116 posted on 08/30/2021 7:38:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Every once in a while,the secular comes up with something that reflects bible principles..
Without them knowing it..

Africa is a biblically cursed Continent.
Mainly because of the enslavement of His People, Israel.

It then isn’t an accident that Africans would then become slaves themselves.

A biblical equation of sowing and reaping.
You sow slavery, you reap slavery.

Identifying with a biblically cursed Continent is not the best way to free oneself, or families, or communities of biblical curses.

So this secular University may have bumped into a biblical premise that it had no intention not bumping into.

Conservatives sometimes wonder how blacks can consistently vote for a democrat party that seemingly enslaves them into poor communities,poor schools, dangerous neighborhoods.

Maybe it’s because they aren’t free.
Spiritually.
Stop identifying with a cursed Continent and maybe that could set people free.


117 posted on 08/30/2021 7:50:47 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: albie

“Black” is also deemed offensive so what of Black Lives Matter/BLM?


118 posted on 08/30/2021 7:57:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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To: albie

“Black” is also deemed offensive so what of Black Lives Matter/BLM?


119 posted on 08/30/2021 8:00:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, Chicago/NYC! I'd move there )
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To: central_va

Pelosi likely called them darkies back in the day.


120 posted on 08/30/2021 8:00:52 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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