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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LOL, nice.
Perhaps the term to be determined students should come up with their own preferred term.
While the term to be determined students take their time to decide the issue, I will be over here listening to the music of the artist formerly known as Prince.
Are you pinkish?
Fine. Do “as they say” on Blazing Saddles.
Yep ..I mostly avoid POC.
Wait..maybe I am racist.
I know I might be sounding trite, but I wonder why we need to discuss skin color at all. Maybe that’s the problem we all have,
So what is the new term? I didn’t get that memo.
America has a problem with just plain Africans
Africanization is rotting the city states
I think it’s the “American” part the Left is offended by.
O P’s for short. I like it. I am so over this offended stuff. People need to get over themselves.
If memory serves, society transitioned to AA in the late 1980s because the term “Black” was offensive and/or undignified.
Note that the term White and Caucasian was always acceptable to use.
Down here in NC, they still use the term ‘Darkies’.
“O P’s for short. I like it. I am so over this offended stuff. People need to get over themselves.”
O P sounds good.
That is the correct thing to do. Skin color is irrelevant. It’s the person that matters.
Let’s just all call one another “hey you!”
“Black” is also deemed offensive so what of Black History Month or BET? “Negro” is BEYOND offensive to liberals so what about the UNCF? The stupidity and absurdity of liberalism knows no bounds.
The left is anti-nationalist as always but has repudiated class struggle rhetoric. All is race now.
Of course it's still really about class struggle, but on the side of the existing ruling class. Who are financing (and enforcing) this "racial" movement.
Clown world. Leftists are all about race and blood feud mentality. As it might be in the less enlightened parts of medieval Europe.
But talk about class struggle from a worker's point of view and you are an extreme right winger.
I reverted to the word, “negro” about 9 years ago.
Now, only the term Caucasian is not considered racist. Technically, Mongoloid should be okay as there IS a country named Mongolia. However, anyone of East Asian extraction would be offended if called a Mongoloid.
America has a problem with just plain Africans.
You had to know that was coming some day.
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