Posted on 06/24/2021 5:31:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC) is the entity that wasted time and money coming up with this new and creative way to stifle speech. On its website, it said: “PARC recognizes that language is a powerful tool used to perpetrate and perpetuate oppression.”
“As a community, we strive to remove oppressive language from our everyday use,” it added.
PARC was kind enough to break examples of “oppressive language” down into five categories which include: “Violent Language,” “Identity-Based Language,” “Language That Doesn’t Say What We Mean,” “Culturally Appropriate Language,” and “Person-First Alternatives.”
Under “Violent Language,” students are encouraged not to use the phrase “killing it” when describing how another person did a good job. Why? Because “if someone is doing well, there are other ways to say so that don’t equate it to murder.”
But how do you know they aren’t “killing it” in self-defense?
In the same category, PARC suggests using the term “general rule” instead of “rule of thumb,” because “this expression allegedly comes from an old British law allowing men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.”
Looks like someone has seen the movie “Boondock Saints,” a few too many times.
Under “Identity-Based Language,” PARC urges students to refrain from using terms such as “crazy, “lame,” or “wild” because “ableist language can contribute to stigmas about and trivializes the experiences of people living mental health conditions.”
They also take issue with the term “people of color,” which, surprisingly, is spot on. RedState’s Kira Davis has written on this matter and explained the issue perfectly.
Under “Language That Doesn’t Say What We Mean,” PARC pushes students to stop using terms like “victim” or “survivor” because “these labels can make a person feel reduced to an experience. Person-first language is great here, unless the person identifies with either word. If they do, honor them by using that word!”
In the “Culturally Appropriative Language” category, the agency exhorts students to stop using terms like “spirit animal” because “in some cultural and spiritual traditions, spirit animals refer to an animal spirit that helps guide and/or protect a person through a journey; equating this with an animal you like strips the term of its significance.”
Last, but most certainly not least, the “Person-First Language” section tells students that they should not use words like “addict” or “mentally ill.” Instead, they should use terms like “person with a substance use disorder” or “person living with a mental health condition” respectively.
PARC also invited students to submit their own examples because apparently, they want the entire university to be in on this insanity initiative that could have only been cooked up by people living with mental health conditions.
Make sure you say these things a lot if only just to offend these wussified PC nitwits.
I was sure it was the BEE.
They embody “people living with a mental health conditions”.
Lord Almighty I would’ve been kicked out day one if this existed when I went to college
It is going to be really fun in the near future. Everyone (us old folks) who didn’t alter their vocabulary will sound like junior high school girls, speaking in unrecognizable terms the rest of the world doesn’t understand.
When are they going to change the names of all those cities in California named after Catholic Saints?
Picnic. Uh, oh, the P word. Has eating lunch on a blanket outside now to the transgression level of a lynching? It used to be nooses as garage door pulleys that disturbed the woke, Now, it’s blankets.
How about honkie, cracker, ofey, gabacho, gringo, Anglo, white privilege, white supremacist? Are these banned also?
Post secondary education used to mean adding to your educated knowledge. Now it is a daycare for folks too old to be in high school. No education just indoctrination.
FB banned me once just a month ago.
Reason?
My friend took a pic of the pier in Capitola with small waves and I posted,
“Good day to shoot the pier.”
It’s surf lingo for surfing between the pilings ...FB thought it was terrorist speech.
I suppose I won’t mention we used to call each other surf nazis?
“In the same category, PARC suggests using the term “general rule” instead of “rule of thumb,” because “this expression allegedly comes from an old British law allowing men to beat their wives with sticks no wider than their thumb.”
These people are NUTS!
Say “Jesus” and watch their heads explode.
We are in an extended period of violent international relations with Eastasia. We have always been in an extended period of violent international relations with Eastasia.
Brandeis still offers Master’s degrees. Is that not oppressive language? It seems the only way out would be to eliminate all of their graduate programs.
:)
1st Amendment Hate Crimes
Lets call it accurately what it is
RE: Say “Jesus” and watch their heads explode.
Depends on how you say the name.
Brandeis, finding whole new ways to abuse the language.
Brandeis still offers Master’s degrees
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Do they offer Mistress degrees?
or
Madame?
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