Posted on 07/18/2019 8:01:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A new “inclusive language guide” compiled by Colorado State University asserts that the word “America” is “non-inclusive” and should be avoided.
“CSU lists both “American” and “America” as non-inclusive words “to avoid,” due to the fact that America encompasses more than just the U.S. By referring to the U.S. as America, the guide claims that one “erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country.” The school suggests using “U.S. citizen” or “person from the U.S.” as substitutes,” writes Ethan Cai.
Other words to avoid include the following;
– Male and female/ladies and gentlemen/Mr./Mrs./Ms (these words are gendered yet we don’t know the person’s gender – there are now infinite genders).
– Straight (when used to refer to heterosexuals, this implies LGBT people are “crooked” or “not normal,” according to the guide).
– Normal person (“implies that ‘other’ people… are not whole or regular people”).
– Handicap parking (could offend disabled people).
– War, cake walk, eenie meenie miney moe, Eskimo, freshman, hip hip hooray!, hold down the fort, starving, and policeman (all of these words are “non-inclusive”).
“Even though these guidelines are suggested and not mandatory, they place students in the uncomfortable position of reciting politically correct talking points that they may not agree with,” said Nicole Neily, president of Speech First. “Words like ‘American,’ ‘male,’ and ‘female’ are used every day by billions of people around the world. When these students graduate, they’re in for a rude awakening!”
“The guide is not about political-correctness or policing grammar, but rather helping communicators practice inclusive language,” the university claims.
That’s exactly what it’s about.
These are the people teaching your kids.
Good luck, America (whoops, I just committed a hate crime).
(Excerpt) Read more at infowars.com ...
Purely anti-American, and no sarcasm or pun is intended.
People from Canada call themselves “Canadians”.
People from Mexico call themselves “Mexicans”.
People from the United States of America call themselves “Americans”.
There is no confusion. Everyone knows what all of this means.
These divisive rabble-rousers need to STFU.
Pay to send your kids to college so they can be turned into blithering idiots without 1 ounce of common sense.
Black excludes white (and every other colour).
Intolerance excludes tolerance.
Left excludes right.
Wrong excludes right.
Insane excludes sane.
Unfortunately, reality also seems to be excluding the possibility of satire.
These people are neurotic and stark raving mad. And those on campus who tolerate this madness only serve to feed the insanity.
Leftists have no sense of humor or proportion. When was the last time you saw a liberal laugh at themselves?
What does he call Saudi Arabia?
I had a liberal English teacher in high school who said it was arrogant for us to call ourselves “Americans” since that excluded others inhabitants of North and South America. He thought “United Statesians” was more appropriate. That didn’t catch on, but I’m sure his self-perception/deception of being terribly interesting persisted.
Does this school receive any federal funding? If it does, cancel it. NOW!!
That’s one giant step backward for MANKIND. LOL
No wonder the progressives think that illegals are “U. S.” citizens.
Since they’re going there, also non inclusive is Coloradan and Fort Collins. Good luck getting your mail after that. Both discriminate against people not from there.
And don’t call yourselves Coloradans either.
“Purely anti-American, and no sarcasm or pun is intended.”
Anti MAGA.
Cut any federal funding until they can decide where they’re actually located and who their clientele is.
FWIW, I can remember when a college education meant something. When the word “professor” meant a highly-esteemed, advanced educator of high intelligence and ethics.
Not any more: ALL destroyed by liberalism...like everything else they touch.
Today, going into a good trade will produce more common sense, wisdom and money than any one of these advanced SJW “basket weaving” degrees. Yeah, the sweet, little darling might get dirty once in awhile, but the end result over the long term will be a sane, productive member of society.
Upon reflection, what this means is that all adjectives need to be banned, and probably adverbs as well.
It already has been largely accepted within these circles that people have the right to self-select what they mean with regards to pronouns and nouns, which render them meaningless.
First they came for the nouns and the pronouns, then the adjectives and adverbs.
I suspect that prepositions reflect a patriarchal culture. They better watch out.
I am pretty sure that with a little work, Marxist philosophy can also come up with a case against verbs.
1984 was NOT a guide, was it?
Find the individual(s) that instigated this and beat them profusely about the head with a ball peen hammer.
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