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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Same reason White is? Or Yellow or Red?
We are all various shades of brown ranging from pale Beige to Brown Coffee.
Even albinos are not White.
Yeah, 120,
But they have that special Skin Colors of The World collection.
32, with such names as
Medium Almond
Medium Deep Rose
Light Medium Almond
Light Almond
Light Rose
Deepest Almond
Extra Deep Golden
Extra Deep Rose
Ectra Deep Almond
Very Deep Almond
And more
Black is called Black Hair
Yellow is called Blonde Hair
Green is called Green Eyes
Blue is called Blue Eyes.
I confess I bought a box of these crayons at (EEK) Walmart.
I just finished binge watching Godfather of Harlem.
You know Malcom X had a point.
His energy was spent identifying the real injustices of the time which I can’t turn my back on coupled with the need for the black community to lift itself up.
He was assassinated by the NOI, not whites.
“Those convicted for his assassination were Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. All three were members of the Nation of Islam.”
The black community could use another modern day Malcom X. He would smile at the integration and acceptance and be like WTF is wrong with all ya’all?
Ed D
Most blacks in this country are mixed with white anyway. The ones from africa are very dark.
Maybe we should just start calling people that are citizens of this country, American and leave it at that.
Those aliens zapped his brain pretty good. lol
Can we use the term that means “someone who annoys”?
For some REAL insensitivity my uncle took the cake. Coming back from Vietnam most peculiar he once asked an Oriental lady out shopping, "Ma'am, are you a chink, a gook or a slope? So I don't offend you by getting it wrong." Even at seven years old I knew it best to wait by the truck to see if all of him came out of the store.
As in naggers?
That answer is correct.
Yeah, right? For cryin’ out loud they go on loud and long calling themselves people of color’’ so why not call them ‘’coloreds’?
The darkies made up that term...
Nope, my post was deleted on another thread for posting the Wheel of Fortune - South Park picture.
And two pansies wanted me banned.
Wasn't Burnt Sienna in the 48 pack?
Have to hand it to Crayola, that's how we all learned 8 x 6 and 8 x 8. I still have to stop and think about 8 x 7.
Humor has many haters.
USMC 68-78 Common, neutral term, especially in Vietnam.
You're being a killjoy... /s
I went to an overwhelming black inner city high school in the late 70s/early 80s and I learned quite a bit about the culture and never once heard the term African-American. (Very rarely you would hear the term Afro-American). Negro and colored were considered old fashioned but not necessarily offensive. (Ads for the United Negro College Fund were ubiquitous). And many of my friends lived in the “ghetto,” not the “community.” Then, when I was in college in the early 80s, I remember reading in the New York Times that, effective immediately, blacks would be known as “African-Americans.” It sounded silly then and I guess it’s already becoming a dirty word.
About ten or so years ago, maybe more, a black Congresswoman was giving a speech on the House floor where she was extolling the virtues of South African blacks and she could not bring herself to use the word ‘black’, which apparently was on the paper she was reading from.
She instead hesitated and hemmed and hawed until she finally said ‘African-American Africans’..............
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