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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: Red Badger

Several years ago, a black 19-year-old phoned in to the Rush Limbaugh show and said that he did not like to be called black because that was not his skin color and did not like African-American because he felt no connection with Africa. He told Rush that he preferred to be called a Negro.


81 posted on 08/30/2021 6:38:21 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: FreedomPoster
form with a box to fill in marked “race”,

NASCAR

82 posted on 08/30/2021 6:38:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

So I guess “Spear Chucker” is out.


Have they made a ruling yet?


83 posted on 08/30/2021 6:40:09 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

Hyphenated anything has always been done and was meant to say you’re not a real American...


84 posted on 08/30/2021 6:41:19 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Red Badger

Black people
White people
Do we have to make things difficult?


85 posted on 08/30/2021 6:41:37 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

Two races: White and Unwhite.


86 posted on 08/30/2021 6:41:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Sirius Lee

Even the darkest Africans I’ve see just look dark brown to me. Most just look medium brown. Why is “Black” okay when it’s not even an accurate description?

“Black” and “white” are just more dividing terms intended to split people into tribes for the purpose of control by the elites. Force people to squabble among themselves so they don’t direct their anger at the incompetent ruling class.


87 posted on 08/30/2021 6:42:01 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: central_va

88 posted on 08/30/2021 6:42:46 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Say what?


89 posted on 08/30/2021 6:42:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Red Badger
Technically, these people could be called African-Americans, as they come from South Africa.

90 posted on 08/30/2021 6:43:27 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: bk1000
Now au courant again


91 posted on 08/30/2021 6:43:31 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Red Badger

In the interest of political correctness, I don’t use that well known racist term for jury-rig. I prefer the term “ Afro-engineer”.


92 posted on 08/30/2021 6:44:01 AM PDT by SimpleJack
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To: Red Badger

Color? Faux black.

93 posted on 08/30/2021 6:46:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

One of these days, some REAL black American is gonna go upside her head........................


94 posted on 08/30/2021 6:47:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Leep
Are you pinkish?

I'm neanderthal, so...a little whiter than regular Scots-Irish, but sure, if you count nose cheeks and ears, then pink works fine.

95 posted on 08/30/2021 6:47:59 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: Red Badger

The proper term used to be “negro”, then “black”, then “African-American “. You need an app that tells you the race name du jour.

I recently found out the word “oriental” is a no-no.


96 posted on 08/30/2021 6:51:24 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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The ‘fill in the blank’ always demonize their chosen name by the actions of their people, so they must cycle through acceptable terms of identification…


97 posted on 08/30/2021 6:51:31 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Red Badger

Snowflakes gonna whine. “Sorry if you’ve twisted my words and the English language to victimize yourself. But, I’m here at Uni to learn how to grow up. Hanging around you is going in the opposite direction. Bye.”


98 posted on 08/30/2021 6:54:21 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Sirius Lee

who sang “say it loud, I’m black and i’m proud” ? Maybe it started then.


99 posted on 08/30/2021 6:55:34 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: Vaquero

Bravo on Theodore Roosevelt!


100 posted on 08/30/2021 6:56:03 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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