University of Michigan is blasted as 'parochial and moronic' after task force bans words like 'picnic,' 'brown bag' and 'blacklist' for being offensive and harming morale

UK Daily Mail ^ | December 24 2020 | HOLDEN WALTER-WARNER

[knighthawk]

The University of Michigan has been blasted as 'moronic' for launching a task force which has branded the words 'picnic,' 'brown bag' and 'blacklist' as offensive terms which could harm morale.

The 'Words Matter Task Force' - set up by the school's Information and Technology Services department - listed more than two dozen words and phrases that could be perceived as offensive to some people, and provided an alternative term that could be used instead.

'To effectively communicate with customers, it is important for ITS to evaluate the terms and language conventions that may hinder effective communication, harm morale, and deliberately or inadvertently exclude people from feeling accepted to foment a healthy and inclusive culture,' the task force's memorandum says.

[SaveFerris]

So, nobody can play this Steely Dan song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTxdmaH2Q4

[irishjuggler]

Oh, dear God... how in heaven’s name did I make it all the way to December 24, 2020, without having heard that “picnic” is a contraction of “pick a n——r (to lynch)”? Alas, we’re living in the stupidest time in human history.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Veggie Todd]

I bet allah akbar is ok, right?

[bagster]

How 'bout this?

Eeny meeny miney mo...catch a ________ by the toe...etc.

Is that still good?

#NeedARuling

[P.O.E.]

Brazil nuts

[Greg123456]

Why don’t they do something useful like firing Jim Harbaugh?

[bagster]

People that annoy you.

[Greg123456]

I once delivered sandwiches to a high school and while I was there I commented that I lived in the ghetto. They said I couldn’t use that word. Then I said “what about slum?” The teacher said I couldn’t use that word either.

[VeniVidiVici]

University of Michigan is blasted as 'parochial and moronic' after task force bans words like 'picnic,' 'brown bag' and 'blacklist' for being offensive and harming morale

Really? Does that mean I have to start saying "African-American list"?

[Mark17]

Then I said “what about slum?” The teacher said I couldn’t use that word either.

F them, but how about economically challenged zone? 👍🤪

[Mark17]

I commented that I lived in the ghetto. They said I couldn’t use that word.

Maybe you should have said, you meant the Warsaw ghetto. 🤗

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Funny, the words they ban are mostly applicable to them.

Oh boy, man oh man, UMich should be blacklisted for their black-and-white thinking and have another brown bag about it, or put on it. Someone should crack the whip over this crazy, insane idea from the crippled minds of these dummies. He or she who would be our masters are off the reservation and need a sanity check before gypping students of their full historic native language. The guys and gals of UMich faculty in their privileged accounts should learn we are not their slaves and it will be no picnic selling these grandfathered phrases down the river. Take that, sweeties, whatever your preferred pronoun.

[Flick Lives]

In an ironic twist, among the forbidden words is the phrase “sanity check”.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The destruction of language. Orwell was a prophet.

[bagster]

I once delivered sandwiches to a high school and while I was there I commented that I lived in the ghetto. They said I couldn’t use that word. Then I said “what about slum?” The teacher said I couldn’t use that word either.

Okay. Sh*thole.

Settled.

[FreedomPoster]

Tiger?

[FreedomPoster]

In particular, the Left has ruined pronouns. It is often difficult to read news reports because of this.

[jonrick46]

Picnic is derived from the French word, pique-nique, from piquer (“to pick”) and nique (“small thing”). Where is racism here?

More Leftnic illusion fit for George Orwell's 1984.