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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
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:10:21 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: knighthawk
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.
To: knighthawk
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:14:53 AM PST
by
nopardons
To: knighthawk
I bet allah akbar is ok, right?
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:20:23 AM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
To: irishjuggler
How 'bout this?
Eeny meeny miney mo...catch a ________ by the toe...etc.
Is that still good?
#NeedARuling
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:20:54 AM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas.")
To: knighthawk
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:22:05 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: knighthawk
Why don’t they do something useful like firing Jim Harbaugh?
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:22:35 AM PST
by
Greg123456
(Massive voter fraud)
To: P.O.E.
People that annoy you.
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:25:13 AM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas.")
To: irishjuggler
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.
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:25:51 AM PST
by
Greg123456
(Massive voter fraud)
To: knighthawk
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 moraleReally? Does that mean I have to start saying "African-American list"?
To: Greg123456
Then I said “what about slum?” The teacher said I couldn’t use that word either. F them, but how about economically challenged zone? 👍🤪
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:48:27 AM PST
by
Mark17
(USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
To: Greg123456
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. 🤗
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:51:09 AM PST
by
Mark17
(USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
To: knighthawk
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.
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posted on
12/24/2020 1:52:51 AM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
To: knighthawk
In an ironic twist, among the forbidden words is the phrase “sanity check”.
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
The destruction of language. Orwell was a prophet.
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posted on
12/24/2020 2:02:57 AM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(#notmypedophile)
To: 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. Okay. Sh*thole.
Settled.
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posted on
12/24/2020 2:08:18 AM PST
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas.")
To: bagster
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posted on
12/24/2020 2:09:18 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Ciaphas Cain
In particular, the Left has ruined pronouns. It is often difficult to read news reports because of this.
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posted on
12/24/2020 2:12:49 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: knighthawk
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.
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posted on
12/24/2020 2:14:08 AM PST
by
jonrick46
( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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