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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

Posted on 12/24/2020 1:07:30 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 1984; education; michigan; newspeak; orwell; righthink; university; uofm; words; wordsmatter; wordsmattertaskforce
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To: knighthawk
...foment a healthy and inclusive culture,' the task force's memorandum says.

Word salad from the Idiot Task Force know-nothings finally succeding in becoming hall monitors, a position denied to them in grade school....perpetual wedgies and swirlies are in order for all involved.

21 posted on 12/24/2020 2:14:54 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: knighthawk

Woke getting tired of woke? Wait, what? /s


22 posted on 12/24/2020 2:24:39 AM PST by cranked
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To: FreedomPoster
Yes. Tiger it is.


23 posted on 12/24/2020 2:27:58 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: knighthawk

programming humans is important just ask the borg


24 posted on 12/24/2020 2:51:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: irishjuggler
Alas, we’re living in the stupidest time in human history.

Yes and what's worse, these do-nothing idiots are actually getting paid to come up with this destruction of our language and culture. Getting paid, while Americans are losing their jobs and businesses because of the covid hoax.

25 posted on 12/24/2020 3:02:50 AM PST by Cheesehead in Texas
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The thing that no one has questioned is what authority do IT dinks have in making a list like this and trying to get people to follow it. I’ve been in IT for 30+ years and not once have I seen “thought police” in the job description. Someone needs to tell these people to STHU and worry about IT, and stop the SWJ crap.


26 posted on 12/24/2020 3:04:16 AM PST by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: knighthawk

The list includes such benign expressions as “long time, no see”. The offensive words/phrases have no explanation of why they could possibly be deemed offensive.

Our entire culture is being erased and re-shaped before our very eyes. By complete and utter morons, many with a very sharp axe to grind.

We can do this the easy way (succession) or the hard way (CWII), but it must be done. Sadly, either way, there will be blood in the streets. History hasn’t been completely erased yet, and it always repeats itself.


27 posted on 12/24/2020 3:05:07 AM PST by LateBoomer
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To: knighthawk

Declare “woke” universities insane asylums—and open them as living quarters for all homeless people!


28 posted on 12/24/2020 3:08:08 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: knighthawk

University of Manipulators. “Education” these daze.


29 posted on 12/24/2020 3:50:26 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: knighthawk

PICNIC!!?? wthell are they talking about now???


30 posted on 12/24/2020 3:59:30 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: bagster

only if you are eating at Sambo’s.


31 posted on 12/24/2020 4:00:17 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: cgbg
Declare “woke” universities insane asylums—and open them as living quarters for all homeless people!

Ding, Ding, Ding!!!

We have a WINNER!

32 posted on 12/24/2020 4:01:54 AM PST by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: ronniesgal

I loved eating at Sambos as a kid. Does that make me a raciss?


33 posted on 12/24/2020 4:07:02 AM PST by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
What's the over and under on the time before the words on the approved "alternative term" list get put on the new prohibited list.

With all of this banning of language and of people expressing disallowed facts and opinions, will we need to reinstitute the Samizdat secret underground publications using typewriters of the Soviet Union? (Interestingly, I found a 50 year old New York Times article that wasn't entirely in the leftist tank discussing the Samizdat.)

34 posted on 12/24/2020 4:09:02 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Turbo Pig

probably!!


35 posted on 12/24/2020 4:09:02 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: Covenantor
...foment a healthy and inclusive culture,' the task force's memorandum says.

Idiots! They probably had some arrant notion about the word "promote" being "un-PC."

Am surprised they didn't instead write "incite a healthy..." or "provoke a healthy..."!

Truly idiots, and I would not even deign to debate with them!

Regards,

36 posted on 12/24/2020 4:25:20 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: knighthawk

I’m surprised that ‘Republican’, ‘conservative’ or ‘Christian’ aren’t on the list! But I’m also sure that this list will grow after the waters are tested for blow back...


37 posted on 12/24/2020 4:25:41 AM PST by Mister Tee (The liberals "hail mary"...coronavirus)
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To: knighthawk

Michigan’s tuition for out of state is $51,200 (with much, if not most, of the money is ultimately from the government, or at least guaranteed by the government).

Articles like this help explain the high price. Lack of any pricing pressures help explain how they can continue to get away with this crap.


38 posted on 12/24/2020 4:34:21 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: knighthawk

“The word ‘picnic’ appears to be banned because of false suggestions on the internet that it originates from the racist, extrajudicial killings of African Americans.”

Actually, this one was interesting in that I once heard an older black person talk about the large family picnics they used to have when he was younger. Needless to say, they enjoyed them immensely, particularly when kids. When he got older, he learned part of the reason was because blacks weren’t permitted in restaurants, so that was their way of ‘eating out’. To me, it sounded like some great times and I, too, would have loved that.

Sadly, the Left screwed that up too by forcing restaurants to accept blacks, rather than forcing them to not accept anyone (white or black).


39 posted on 12/24/2020 4:40:54 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: knighthawk

I never knew that picnic was racist. I still don’t know, because it isn’t racist. It makes no difference what it’s derived from. I wasn’t living back then. I only know its current meaning.

Next they’ll be banning the word Slavic because it’s related to the word slave.

These people are dangerous.


40 posted on 12/24/2020 5:40:26 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much much much much much much much much much much more than a virus from china.)
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