Posted on 12/20/2022 9:18:03 AM PST by Signalman
Stanford University published an index of "harmful language" it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements.
The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a "multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford," according to the guide.
Many of the terms in the index offered longer alternatives for terms that described a person by one characteristic. These terms include replacing "immigrant" with "a person who has immigrated," "prisoner" with "a person who is/was incarcerated" and "homeless person" with "a person without housing."
Other terms deemed harmful in this section include "abort," which offers the replacement of "cancel" or "end," because of moral concerns about abortion; "child prostitute" is replaced with a "child who has been trafficked," so the person is not defined by just one characteristic; and "Karen" is replaced with "demanding or entitled White woman."
The guide says its goal is to eliminate "many forms of harmful language," including "racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language" in Stanford websites and code. It added that it strives to educate people on the impact of words.
There are 10 "harmful language" sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.
Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term, "American." People are instead asked to use "U.S. Citizen" because "American" typically refers to "people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas." The Americas, the index notes, comprises 42 countries.
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Oh, I’m not a Yooper, eh. Trolls are pretty dicey, too.
Harvard needs to be burned to the ground.
re: “American”
We are the **only** country with the name United States of AMERICA! If Costa Rican’s want to be called “American”, they can change the name of their country to Costa Rican States of America.
By the way,...If I as an AMERICAN can learn to properly pronounce Chile or San Jose, Costa Rica, they can learn to say NEW YORK or NEW JERSEY. It is **not** Nuevo York .
Yes, this gets on my nerves. I spent six months living in Costa Rica, living with Costa Rican family, while attending Spanish language schools. Their chauvinism was insufferable. Toward the end I stopped being polite.
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
*thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas.”*
prove it isn’t
Conservative students who object to the new terms are being asked to wear a yellow star on their outer clothing so their 'betters' will know who they - and act accordingly.
Hey Stanford....here’s a less harmful version: press your lips to my derriere.....
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