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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don’t forget Edgar.
“Oi’m blek, oi’m prood, an’ oi’m Oirish.”
So “colored” is OK again, now?!
Asking for TalcumX...
So is ‘Asiatic’.....................
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.
Jaysus. that hurts me ears.
Well we all know the “American” part is right. Quelle 🔥🐂💩
Victim-American has a nice ring to it when you’re in a gimme stuff frame of mind.
Seems they’re just gonna have to go back to negro it seems.
From now on, just say “that guy”
For Black folks born in the United States ...
Sorry, Payne, but you're contributing to the problem by capitalizing "black".
I suspect “Skin color is irrelevant” is considered racist these days as well.
Blacks seek to keep the agenda on skin color to divert attention from their failing cultural values.
i’ve lived thru colored, negro, black, af/am and “poc”, i’m done...
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.
“Black” is also deemed offensive so what of Black Lives Matter/BLM?
“Black” is also deemed offensive so what of Black Lives Matter/BLM?
Pelosi likely called them darkies back in the day.
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