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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Most 'white' people aren't 'white' either: pink, neutral, beige etc... 'Black' actually makes sense.
The race is Negro; well defined anthropogenicly. The culture (art, music, food, dialect, etc.) is African American. The political philosophy is “Black” as in “Black,Power” and includes a variety of goals centered around race-based political power.
Most 'white' people aren't 'white' either-pink, neutral, beige etc... 'Black' actually makes sense.
Of course for blacks living here the true correct term is 'American'....
A non-derogatory word for black male, used by blacks and whites alike (even in mixed company), prevalent in the U.S. military in the 1960s and 1970s.
I served in the Navy from 1961-'64. This is the first time I ever saw/heard that word.
Neither one makes sense. Caucasoid and Afroid would make more sense.
That's true of every American. No hyphens.
Probably forbidden by a "woke" librarian, who never read it because of references to runaway slave Nigger Jim. Who, for those who have not read it, was a heroic character. I pull that classic out every ten years or so and reread it.
I fgured I’d hit up Kensington, North Philly, and Strawberry Mansion...
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I was going old school wid da N Broad St suggestion.
Without the gentrification from Temple in recent years you would not even be able to drive up N Broad, let alone walk there. I still don’t understand anyone willingly sending their college children (red, yellow, black or white) to Temple. There is no safe area among all those buildings, new or old.
Okay, from now on I'll use the word "near" instead of black.
"University tells students not to use the term "African-American" because it's now offensive"
I always have found the term offensive, except when used in reference to people who really are African-American. Like Charlize Theron, Dave Matthews, Gary Player & Kim du Toit.
“People of Color” is now ‘offensive’....................
“Black” is probably the LEAST accurate description of all. A very small percentage of African-Americans have skin that approximates being “black,” and millions obviously have mixed-heritage that renders their skin very similar to Hispanics or even tanned whites. Millions are like KC QB Patrick Mahomes, i.e., nowhere near being “black.” The word “Black” seems to mainly serve the purposes of sloganeering.
Having been overseas and met real Africans, some of whom have no white blood in their lineage, they are very close to ‘black’, but even then the term ‘black’ is a misnomer................
Just call them ‘slaves of the democrat party’.
Please don’t call me white. Call me European American.
If you are an American when you go into the Restroom,
And you are an American when you come out of the Restroom,
What are you while you are IN the Restroom?
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