University removes ‘bias-free language guide’ from website

Associated Press ^ | Jul 30, 2015 4:45 PM EDT | Holy Ramer

[Olog-hai]

The University of New Hampshire has removed from its website a “bias-free language guide” that warned against using the word “American” because it fails to recognize South America.

The guide was developed in 2013 by several advocacy groups whose members are appointed by the university president. It was mentioned in an annual report submitted by at least one of those groups in 2014, but the university said administrators did not know about it until this week, when it was criticized in the media. […]

It suggested replacements for common terms, such as “person of material wealth” instead of rich and “person who lacks advantages that others have” instead of poor. …

[GeronL]

This is the kind of insanity that psychiatrists will be studying in the future

[Scrambler Bob]

Romans 1:22
KJV
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when they thought in themselves that they were wise, they became insane.

No need for further study. Unless some of the fools are remaining in the future.

[OttawaFreeper]

By God, it’s been more than twenty years since my days as a university student and I am really taken aback when I read stories like these about the goings on on campuses these days with nonsense like this. Even though I may have been more liberal in my thinking back then (of course later I got the proverbial sand kicked in my face that made me a conservative), I still liked country music and wore my cowboy boots and western shirts where ever I went on campus. I’d hate to think how very difficult doing something like that now would be, lol.

[Scrambler Bob]

CowBOY???

[Olog-hai]

The Greek word translated “fools” and “insane” here comes from the same Greek word we get “morons” from.

[Steely Tom]

This is the kind of insanity that psychiatrists will be studying in the future

I agree with others who have connected it with "Stockholm syndrome."

The Left has driven an entire nation and culture into collective mass Stockholm syndrome.

[smokingfrog]

livestock control associate

[BwanaNdege]

The Greek word translated “fools” and “insane” here comes from the same Greek word we get “morons” from.

The Greek word transliterated as "agnostic", when translated into Latin becomes "ignoramus".

:-)

[SES1066]

So does the brain-dead Administration of the Univ. of New Hampshire regret the license (formal or official permission to do something) that they gave these groups to take license (a writer's or artist's freedom to deviate from fact or from conventions... ) with accepted words in order for these groups to take license (freedom to behave as one wishes, especially in a way that results in excessive or unacceptable behavior) from conventional standards?

[Olog-hai]

Technically, those are loanwords rather than translations. But both mean “we don’t know”, just like Greek “emoranthesan” means “they became morons”.

[Olog-hai]

Only because they got caught.

[Awgie]

We must call out, mock, deride, embarrass and humiliate all purveyors of this Orwellian bull crap. It is not amusing or benign. It is intensely dangerous and malignant. It is culturally pathological. It reflect an elitism and profound disrespect for core American values. Why are we always told everyone else’s values matter but we are told to bury our own?

[Walrus]

Did I misread the article?

It sounds to me like someone at UNH woke up and shit-canned an ill-advised, quasi-official “campus speech guide.”

This is a GOOD thing, no?

[wildwoodla]

Nonsense, indeed, from higher education, no less. And the university president didn’t know about this? The apparent lack of oversight for posting a university policy says a lot about leadership, or lack of.

According to http://swz.salary.com/salarywizard/College-President-Salary-Details-Durham-NH.aspx?hdcbxbonuse=off&isshowpiechart=true&isshowjobchart=false&isshowsalarydetailcharts=false&isshownextsteps=false&isshowcompanyfct=false&isshowaboutyou=false university president median salary with benefits is $346,926 annually. And we all know the garbage our young people are being taught as well as the debt incurred. Insanity doesn’t begin to explain this idiocy.

[PAR35]

Using approved terminology in a sentence:

‘The cake was too person of material wealth for me to eat more than a small slice. ‘

[Tanniker Smith]

Persons of Limited Knowlege

[grey_whiskers]

We can't have Free Speech here!

Because University.

(Whenever the left says they want "Free something" they really mean "Free FROM it." )

[publius911]

It suggested replacements for common terms, such as “person of material wealth” instead of rich and “person who lacks advantages that others have” instead of poor.
… This is the kind of insanity that psychiatrists will be studying in the future.

I sure hope so!

Did any Freeper manage to save a copy of the University of New Hampshire “bias-free language guide" before the juvenile exercise was removed from the university web site?

I would truly enjoy creating a very close parody of the document to document the absurdity of "progressive" children administrators allowing uneducated ignoramuses to define "permissible" and "non permissible" forms of expressing rights protected by the Second Amendment.

[windsorknot]

Too bad. It was some great laugh material even without a laugh track.