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Stanford releases guide to eliminate 'harmful language,' cautions against calling US citizens 'American'
Fox News ^ | 12/20/2022 | Landon Mion

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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To: alexander_busek

Oh, I’m not a Yooper, eh. Trolls are pretty dicey, too.


21 posted on 12/20/2022 11:10:28 AM PST by Jhadur ("You are not ready for immortality.")
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22 posted on 12/20/2022 11:34:14 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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To: Signalman

Harvard needs to be burned to the ground.


23 posted on 12/20/2022 12:59:45 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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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.


24 posted on 12/20/2022 1:57:48 PM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Signalman

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...

25 posted on 12/20/2022 2:36:09 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Signalman

*thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas.”*

prove it isn’t


26 posted on 12/20/2022 3:31:01 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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... "child prostitute" is replaced with a "child who has been trafficked," so the person is not defined by just one characteristic...

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.

27 posted on 12/23/2022 2:50:00 PM PST by GOPJ (Illegals coming idiopathic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE) )
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To: Signalman

Hey Stanford....here’s a less harmful version: press your lips to my derriere.....


28 posted on 12/23/2022 3:01:53 PM PST by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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