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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: rbg81

It’s funny you mention that because I also reverted to calling white people Caucasian at that time to make sure I stayed equal in my use of the term.


61 posted on 08/30/2021 6:02:47 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Red Badger

Congressional Black Caucus

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

United Negro College Fund

Association of African American Museums

Has anybody yet come up with the definitive list of which of the terms used in the names of the organizations above are offensive, and how the offending parties are to be canceled for their use of words that are politically incorrect?


62 posted on 08/30/2021 6:03:37 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: EEGator
> ...as told to me by a black chick...

"CHICK"?!?!? OMG now you're really in trouble.... :-)

63 posted on 08/30/2021 6:05:22 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: Red Badger

It’s the American part they find offensive?


64 posted on 08/30/2021 6:06:06 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Red Badger

So’ moolinyan‘ ??? What??


65 posted on 08/30/2021 6:06:06 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger

Unless, of course, the caller is black. Then, anything is ok.


66 posted on 08/30/2021 6:09:46 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Salman

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else”

Theodore Roosevelt


67 posted on 08/30/2021 6:12:50 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger

Big media will continue their practice of not providing any description or photos of suspects who are, well you know.


68 posted on 08/30/2021 6:13:07 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Red Badger

I have two black children. We use “black” when referring to race, and “African-American” when referring to ethnicity. They also know there is nothing offensive about the terms “negro” or “colored”, though “nigger” in this century is always meant to be a slur. Most of the time we don’t think or talk about it at all.


69 posted on 08/30/2021 6:17:40 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: dayglored
>...as told to me by a black chick...

"CHICK"?!?!? OMG now you're really in trouble....:-)

Unless it was a young talking chicken.

70 posted on 08/30/2021 6:18:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: dayglored

Shall I report to Room 101 for re-education?

She was actually a Drill Instructor.


71 posted on 08/30/2021 6:19:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

But referring to Whites as “Crackers,” “Hillbillies,” “inbreds,” “terrorists,” or “evil” - is A-OK.


72 posted on 08/30/2021 6:20:12 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Red Badger

Ain’t no way I would send a kid to Brandeis...


73 posted on 08/30/2021 6:23:08 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe we should use “Melanin-Enhanced Americans” or “Melanin-Rich Americans” for blacks and “Melanin-Deficient Americans” or “Melanin-Poor Americans” for whites.


74 posted on 08/30/2021 6:24:07 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Red Badger

And they recommend using white with a lower case “w”. What about my ancestral roots?


75 posted on 08/30/2021 6:24:56 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Dr. Sivana

About a year ago, I was in the local Goodwill looking for books as I sometimes do.

I found a pristine copy of Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ practically brand new.

I bought it. Inside cover page was stamped, “Declared Excess from library of _____(LOCAL)____ High School”


76 posted on 08/30/2021 6:28:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: EEGator
> She was actually a Drill Instructor.

In which case you call her whatever she tells you to call her. :-)

77 posted on 08/30/2021 6:33:16 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: rbg81

“If memory serves, society transitioned to AA in the late 1980s because the term “Black” was offensive and/or undignified.”

Every few years a new term comes around. It is hard to keep up.


78 posted on 08/30/2021 6:34:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: dayglored

She actually smiled when I laughed.
No one else did out of fear. :)


79 posted on 08/30/2021 6:35:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Red Badger

So I guess “Spear Chucker” is out. /SARC


80 posted on 08/30/2021 6:37:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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