Aston University tells students that it's sexist to say manmade, mastercopy and civilisation because it believes they have sexist or racist connotations

Daily Mail UK ^ | 08 October 2021 | by DAILY MAIL REPORTER

[blueplum]

A university is encouraging students to stop using the words manmade, mastercopy and civilisation because it believes they have sexist or racist connotations.

Sociology undergraduates at Aston University in Birmingham have been advised to find replacements for words that could be seen to reinforce prejudices.

Offending words include immigrants, third world, tribe, civilised and, in some contexts, native, all because of their colonialist or racist overtones.

Language deemed to be sexist includes one-man show, old masters, forefathers, seminal and masterful....

[ValleyofHope]

Это безумие!
(Practicing russian)
This is crazy!

[DeFault User]

Well, since any word can be considered racist or sexist or misogynist, we shall revert to grunting, pointing, beating our chests or whacking the ground with sticks.

We can play “Thus Spake Zarathrustra” backwards to accompany this great advance in whatever this is.

[Bones75]

I just take them at face value at this point. They are saying “civilization” is a white thing? Okay, fine. Y’all said it, not me.

[fieldmarshaldj]

GAY.

[metmom]

A “masters” degree can just as easily be called an “equal degree”.

Or maybe “participation trophy”.

[metmom]

Leftists are the biggest racists going.

[Fresh Wind]

Can’t say “immigrant”?

That’s fine, I prefer “alien” anyway, in certain contexts.

[knarf]

Y'know what?

muthaF**K your "connotation !

It's a friggin' FANTASY !

con·no·ta·tion
/ˌkänəˈtāSH(ə)n/

noun
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
"the word “discipline” has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression"

PHILOSOPHY
the abstract meaning or intension of a term, which forms a principle determining which objects or concepts it applies to.

[Robert DeLong]

Aston Univ. Birmingham England

[Vaduz]

Find replacements for words that could be seen to reinforce prejudices.

PC = Paranoid & Crazy

[Eleutheria5]

Sir Oscar Wilde would not own any of these. Not gay. Just stupid.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Gay is also another word for stupid. ;-D

[Eleutheria5]

So the term "gay" is really homophobic?! You brute, you!