Posted on 03/08/2023 3:55:55 AM PST by karpov
On its “Inclusive Language” website, UNC-Chapel Hill reminds readers that words have consequences: “To fully represent the diversity of our students, faculty, staff and everyone in our community,” UNC states, “it is important to use language that supports [our] values.” Such prose is standard fare on equivalent sites across higher education. Yet a discerning reader might be a little surprised by one sentence on the UNC site, specifically: “Carolina is committed to creating an inclusive and equitable learning environment for every Tar Heel.”
As the previously mentioned reader already knows, “Tar Heel” is a term with a messy history. Though it is now commonly used to refer to a North Carolina resident, a UNC student or alum, or (most commonly) a UNC sports teams, it was once a term with strong class and racial connotations. In a recent scholarly paper, the historian Bruce Baker notes that one of the first recorded uses of the term was in an 1852 newspaper article that applied the word to Frederick Douglass, in derisive reference to his race. Baker further observes that the term evoked “work by poor people, work that dirtied the bodies of both enslaved African Americans and poor whites.”
The reference to “Tar Heels” on Chapel Hill’s “Inclusive Language” site might seem trivial. After all, the point of Baker’s essay is to suggest that many North Carolinians (including whites) came to embrace a slur as a point of pride. What is worth noting, however, is that the term sits uncomfortably with the site’s recommendations concerning inclusive speech. Rather than referring to the “low income and poor,” the site advises, we should speak of “people whose self-reported income was in the lowest income bracket.”
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If only UNC had been as committed to stopping the COVID leak from Wuhan LAB where they were providing safety training for the Chinese.
So should we re-write the Beatitude?
Something like, “Blessed are those whose self-reported income us in the lower brackets”?
I wonder what Howie Carr will say this afternoon?
I thought “tar heel” referred to low-rank sailors who soaked their braided hair in pine tar to keep it waterproofed, and the tar would subsequently drip down their back?
“The Crazies’ have taken over University HR Bimbos and Pretentious ‘men’.... and yeah, these folks have too much time on their hands.
The dummed down low IQ of corporate employees these days is abysmal. Corporations and universities should focus their energies on producing actual good performing product instead of this trash wokeness which not only drives away customers but allows their employees too to have attitudes when they are in the wrong, gaslighting customers, boss, everything but themselves.
Wokeness is a double disease of schizophrenia and narcissism. Ironically things like police departments too are affected while the black community protesting them are just as dummed down.
When are we going to strip ourselves of language and go back to using hieroglyphics? Meme’s are close to that already. Maybe we should just grunt at each other. There was a really bad movie, I think it was Battlefield Earth? with John Travolta, yeah that will be US soon enough. Progressives sure do like to regress.
Don’t get me wrong, some meme’s are priceless.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.
Words won’t hurt you, but if you’re a leftist, they can destroy your precious worldview.
They are the speech police, denying citizens their first amendment right! Every student there should take a copy of the list, stand before the school board, and crump.e it up while saying “the hell we will! In America we still have the right to free speech”
If every student did so, the matter wouod be dropped because they would be exposing a system of suppression which vio,ates the constitution.
Anytime I read or hear the word “Inclusive”;I automatically assume that means there is poop in the soup. because the soup is inclusive and some people - abet very few - like to eat sht.
“Wokeness is a double disease of schizophrenia and narcissism.”
Great comment—I wish I had written it.
I recently got banned from a non political site for a comment that stated actual facts (that could not be disputed)—but someone interpreted those facts to be racist.
I made no mention of race in my post at all.
It is getting messy out there...
i am a disabled military veteran. i have earned the right to completely disregard any of this communicative claptrap.
i state: my submission to the annals of dialogue, in the era whers words are decreed to break men’s spirit, that this circumglobal masturbatory self-pleasurement is nothing less than a mega-pound sample of grabassticlizardshit!
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