Posted on 02/09/2015 7:01:51 AM PST by Impala64ssa
‘Inclusive Language Campaign’ debuts at University of Michigan
Dozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan caution students not to say things that might hurt others’ feelings, part of a new “Inclusive Language Campaign” at the state’s flagship public university that cost $16,000 to implement.
Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include “crazy,” “insane,” “retarded,” “gay,” “tranny,” “gypped,” “illegal alien,” “fag,” “ghetto” and “raghead.” Phrases such as “I want to die” and “that test raped me” are also verboten.
University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The College Fix in an email the campaign aims to “address campus climate by helping individuals understand that their words can impact someone and to encourage individuals to commit to creating a positive campus community.”ILCinside
Students have been asked to sign a pledge to “use inclusive language” and to help their peers “understand the importance of using inclusive language,” according to campaign materials.
Though only in existence for one semester, the Inclusive Language Campaign has maintained a strong presence throughout the university. Students roaming the campus frequently encounter posters of all sizes reminding them: “YOUR WORDS MATTER,” and asking questions such as: “If you knew that I grew up in poverty, would you still call things ‘ghetto’ and ‘ratchet’?”
Representatives of the Inclusive Language Campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The College Fix.
Junior Kidada Malloy, who helps promote the program on campus, told the Michigan Daily the campaign “is a great program because it will improve the day-to-day language of students on campus by providing education around words that are offensive.”
Fitzgerald told The College Fix the university budgeted $16,000 for the campaign. The program comes at a time when the university has raised tuition and fees for the last two consecutive years.
This campaign is crazy. For example, my car’s tranny is so insane, that when my tires hit a fag of sticks on the road today, the mechanic said the engine’s output was retarded.
Luckily, when I was at the mechanic’s shop, I had a book about the Holocaust and the Jewish ghettos instituted by the Nazis.
The mechanic came back and said I needed a new part, “I want to die cast a new part in my machine shop.”
I also attend a self defense class in which we practice and are graded on our sexual assault resistance. So, as a matter of training, that test raped me.
In the end, the car repair was not expensive, so I left the shop in a gay mood.
How gayly retarded.
Welcome to the Collective, Comrade.
Ahhhh.
The old British-style “stiff upper lip” and all that, eh, what?
A very appropriate quote. Thanks.
U of M? That place has been going to hell since the first antiwar "teach-ins" of the 60's.
Students have long figured out how to get over a system like this: create their own words and even a pseudo language.
Heck, back in my day *high school* students did this to evade the language police, which was minimal, or just to ensure privacy. The best part is that it annoys the heck out of the enforcers.
Even the entire Cockney language evolved this way, as did Pig Latin.
Back then, we had a great resource about cursing in other languages, in Maledicta, The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, published by Reinhold Aman from 1977 to 2005. When asked about his favorite swear word, he cited a word from northern India. “Sala”.
Sala literally means “your wife’s brother.” However, implied are several paragraphs of really rude verbal aggression included. A just before the fistfight word.
So, of course our standard greeting, while making a one-handed Hindu salute, was “Sala”. But we had a bunch of them, utterly opaque foreign expressions from around the world, that were quite obscene and offensive.
My Impala isn’t an SS. It originally had a 283, a previous owner dropped a 327in it.
Stalinism is for queers, ghetto democrats and other losers.
Come get me.
LOL! I knew the Yiddish cuss words back then, also knew some Puerto Ricans in hs who taught us some “colorful” Spanish words. Also some guys from “the Islands, Mon” who showed us the fine art of using salty languge from the Caribbean. Even knew someone who’s deaf who showed us how to curse in sign language. Yeah diversity can be a good thing :)
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