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Cardiff Metropolitan University Bans All “Politically Incorrect” Words: Amusing List of Banned Words
Mishtalk.com ^ | 3-4-2017 | Mish Shedlock

Posted on 03/04/2017 2:20:10 PM PST by blam

Cardiff Metropolitan University is at the forefront of political correctness sensitivity. The University Bans Lecturers from Using any Sexist or Insensitive Words. The list of banned words is wider than you might think. Here are some examples: mankind, homosexual, housewife, manmade, and sportsmanship.

And please, try to avoid words like “mother” and “father” unless you can say “mother and father” together. Yes, the article states that.

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KEYWORDS: british; censor; pc; politicalcorrect
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To: Mears

It makes zero sense.

“Housewife” is an occupation — the person doing the job is a “producer”.


21 posted on 03/04/2017 2:56:07 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: blam
There are 406 words found beginning with MAN and 148 beginning with MEN; there are 86 words ending in SON (masculine, there are 429 words ending in MEN and 429 ending in MAN.

Those dolts have their work cut out for them.

22 posted on 03/04/2017 2:58:02 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: blam

They can’t use Best Person For The Job since the word Person ends with a masculine word SON.


23 posted on 03/04/2017 2:58:57 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: blam

Oh and a housewife is a consumer but a man is not?


24 posted on 03/04/2017 2:59:53 PM PST by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: blam
Shouldn't mansion be on the list too?
25 posted on 03/04/2017 3:15:37 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: blam

Well there’s some double-plus-good duckspeak right there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak


26 posted on 03/04/2017 3:21:52 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: blam

Is “F$ck you, Cardiff” ok?


27 posted on 03/04/2017 3:43:02 PM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: blam

Since a snowflakes are notorious for their cursing, I predict they will have difficult a time replacing m-effer with “mother and father...”


28 posted on 03/04/2017 3:43:31 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: blam

So much for “Man-made Global Warming”.


29 posted on 03/04/2017 3:47:06 PM PST by DeltaZulu
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To: All

So “Polio victim” is to be replaced with “Polio survivor.” But what if the person you’re referring to was a long passed ancestor of yours who actually died from Polio? Is he still a survivor even though he’s dead?


30 posted on 03/04/2017 3:53:00 PM PST by John Milner
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To: John Milner

Survived right up until the end!


31 posted on 03/04/2017 3:53:58 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: blam

fake news = fake news, stupid liberal = stupid liberal


32 posted on 03/04/2017 5:15:19 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Housewife is a job she is a producer of something of value. “

I was “just” a housewife for years,worked hard,and produced 5 good citizens.

Best years of my life.

.


33 posted on 03/04/2017 5:24:14 PM PST by Mears
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To: blam

THey’re going to have to outlaw all latin-derived languages, since every noun is either male or female...and there are other unrelated languages that do the same.


34 posted on 03/04/2017 6:27:45 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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To: DeltaZulu

LOVE your LOGIC!!!!!

Meanwhile, note their list has

perSON twice

and

huMAN once.

Sorry. bad list.


35 posted on 03/04/2017 7:36:52 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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