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It’s sort of a boomer talking point at this point, but it’s true: everything about the American system in 2022 is straight out of George Orwell.
It’s really wacky that they are so aggressively just doing all these things that are listed in 1984, including aggressively altering the language.
Terms and phrases such as “American,” “Karen,” “prisoner,” and even “hip hip hooray,” are “harmful” and should be replaced with more acceptable alternatives, according to Stanford University’s recently exposed index of words to be “eliminated” from use.
The California-based university’s listing of “potentially harmful terms,” originally published in May, drew significant attention this week after seeing widespread exposure on social media.
According to the initiative’s website, the goal of the “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford” is to strive to eliminate the “many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language in Stanford websites and code.”
It also calls to avoid terms that derive from “colonialism.”
“We encourage you to evaluate the language you use and make changes where you can,” it continues.
The stated purpose of the site, which “focuses on potentially harmful terms” used in the U.S., is “to educate people about the possible impact of the words we use.”
The list of “harmful” terms to be “eliminated” appear in ten distinct categories.
Ableist
Under the “ableist” category of “harmful terms” which further the “belief that people who live with disabilities are abnormal,” Stanford recommends to “consider using” alternatives such as “person with a substance use disorder” instead of “addict,” “masked study” instead of “blind study,” “died by suicide” instead of “committed suicide,” “detail-oriented” instead of “OCD,” and “quick meeting” instead of “stand up meeting.”
Ageist
Under the “ageist” category of language which “singles out a person based on their age instead of their qualifications,” the Stanford list suggests using the person’s name instead of “gray beard,” and “person suffering from senility” instead of the term “senile.”
Culturally Appropriative
“Culturally appropriative” language that “misuses terms that hold meaning to a particular culture in a way that often lacks respect or appreciation” is also to be avoided.
The guide calls to completely desist from the noun “Brave” because it “perpetuates the stereotype of the ‘noble courageous savage,’ equating the Indigenous male as being less than a man.”
Other “offensive” terms and phrases to be avoided include: “bury the hatchet,” “chief,” “guru,” and even “tribe.”
Gender-Based
“Gender-based” terms, which are deemed “not helpful, and, in many cases, are exclusionary,” include the woke “‘preferred’ pronouns” instead of just “pronouns,” given that adding “preferred” implies that “non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.”
Words that reinforce “male-dominated language” include “mankind” which should be replaced with “people, humankind, [or] human beings;” “manmade” which should be replaced with “made by hand;” and “manpower,” to be replaced with terms such as “workforce” or “personnel resources.”
Even the term “seminal,” which refers to something that strongly influences later developments, is considered a reinforcement of “male-dominated language” and should be replaced with “leading” or “groundbreaking” instead.
Imprecise
Terms deemed “imprecise” include: “abort,” which “can unintentionally raise religious/moral concerns over abortion;” and even the use of “American” instead of “U.S. citizen” is deemed offensive in that it insinuates that the United States is “the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries).”
The term “Hispanic” has roots that “lie in Spain’s colonization of South American countries” and is to be avoided as well.
Interestingly, the guide suggests that the term “Karen” is harmful and should be replaced with the apparently less offensive “demanding or entitled White woman” instead.
The term “oriental” is seen as “pejorative as it racializes people of Asian descent as forever opposite ‘others,’” while “peanut gallery” should also be avoided as it “refers to the cheapest and worst section in theaters where many Black people sat during the Vaudeville era.”
While the term “straight,” as opposed to “heterosexual,” implies that non-heterosexuals are “bent” or not “normal,” the guide also condemns use of the term “thug” instead of “suspect” or “criminal,” because it tends to take on a “racist connotation when used in certain circles.”
Institutionalized Racism
Terms deemed to be forms of “institutionalized racism,” include: “blacklist,” which “assigns negative connotations to the color black, racializing the term,” as well as “brown bag,” and “red team,” due to the fact that “red” is often “used disparagingly to refer to Indigenous peoples.”
The term “whitespace” also appears on the list, for it apparently assigns “value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized.”
Person-First
Examples of “offensive” terms in the “person-first” category, which help to avoid defining people “by just one of their characteristics,” include the use of “convict” instead of “person who is/was incarcerated;” “homeless person” instead of “person without housing;” “immigrant” instead of “person who has immigrated” or “non-citizen;” or “prisoner” instead of “person who is/was incarcerated.”
Violence-themed
The guide also recommends “using non-violent alternatives” to violent language “whenever possible.”
The term “abusive relationship” should be discarded in favor of “relationship with an abusive person” in order to communicate that a person is committing the abuse and not the relationship.
Even the age-old universal idiom, “kill(ing) two birds with one stone,” which implies the accomplishment of two things at once, is deemed an apparent “expression [that] normalizes violence against animals,” as does the expression that there is “more than one way to skin a cat.”
In addition, the expressions to “take a shot at” something or to “take your best shot at” something, also “represent the unnecessary use of the imagery of hurting someone or something.”
Other Terms
Other terms blacklisted by the guide include the common cheer “hip hip hooray,” which Stanford claims “was used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods,” though the cheer originated long before the rise of the Nazi movement; as well as the phrase to “hold down the fort,” because it “stems from settlers and soldiers resisting ‘savages’ when ‘on the warpath.’”
In addition, the guide lists “long time no see” and “no can do” as offensive terms due to the fact that they “originated from stereotypes that mocked non-native English speakers.”
After being publicized this week on social media, the index of taboo terms and phrases was met with outrage and mockery.
“I remember how proud I was when I became a naturalized American citizen. I’m still proud to be an American, and I don’t care that @Stanford disapproves of my using the term,” wrote Stanford University Professor of Medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
“Stanford disapproves of saying you’re proud to be an American? Whoa,” replied Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605012813625167873
https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1605212052439633920
https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1605029838963761152
https://twitter.com/venturetwins/status/1604335401325379584
“The academy is beyond saving,” wrote another.
“You thought they were banning just ‘Confederates?’ Nope. Stanford’s new list of naughty words includes ‘American,’” another user wrote.
“American” is a very strange one to ban.
But it is really an obsolete term.
“America” doesn’t even exist anymore. What we have is Analmerica: land of the tranny and home of the child molester.
https://twitter.com/BreitbartLondon/status/1546181958484561920
People fought and died for freedoms, and people are now giving them away for free.
They’re demanding they be taken from them.
