Saying ‘American’ Is Now RACIST And Stanford University’s List of Other UNACCEPTABLE WORDS

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a “multi-phase” project of Stanford’s IT
leaders.

“Stanford University” – now there’s an unacceptable term.

What will it take for the people rise against this leftist scourge destroying the country?

Stanford Scrambles To Hide List Calling ‘American’ Racist or ‘Harmful’ Language

By: Valient News, December 22, 2022:

Despite Stanford’s claims, the debate on the term “Americans” arises not out of racism, but linguistic differences between English and Spanish speakers.

Stanford University has demanded that citizens of the United States should not be referred to as “Americans,” deeming it harmful and racist language use.

In May, Stanford published an index of offensive words, as part of their “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which they described as a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford.”

“The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate* 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,” the university wrote on its website.

Keep reading…

The Wall Street Journal editorial

Guide to Acceptable Words
Behold the school’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.

By The Editorial Board, Dec. 19, 2022:

Parodists have it rough these days, since so much of modern life and culture resembles the
Babylon Bee. The latest evidence is that Stanford University administrators in May published
an index of forbidden words to be eliminated from the school’s websites and computer code,
and provided inclusive replacements to help re-educate the benighted.

Call yourself an “American”? Please don’t. Better to say “U.S. citizen,” per the bias hunters,
lest you slight the rest of the Americas. “Immigrant” is also out, with “person who has
immigrated” as the approved alternative. It’s the iron law of academic writing: Why use one
word when four will do?

You can’t “master” your subject at Stanford any longer; in case you hadn’t heard, the school
instructs that “historically, masters enslaved people.” And don’t dare design a “blind study,”
which “unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative,

Appeared in the December 20, 2022, print edition as ‘The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words’.
furthering an ableist culture.” Blind studies are good and useful, but never mind; “masked
study” is to be preferred. Follow the science.

“Gangbusters” is banned because the index says it “invokes the notion of police action against
‘gangs’ in a positive light, which may have racial undertones.” Not to beat a dead horse (a
phrase that the index says “normalizes violence against animals”), but you used to have to get
a graduate degree in the humanities to write something that stupid.

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a “multi-phase” project of Stanford’s IT
leaders. The list took “18 months of collaboration with stakeholder groups” to produce, the university tells us. We can’t imagine what’s next, except that it will surely involve more make-
work for more administrators, whose proliferation has driven much of the rise in college

tuition and student debt. For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750
administrative staff.

The list was prefaced with (to use another forbidden word) a trigger warning: “This website
contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own
pace.”

Evidently it was all too much for some at the school to handle. On Monday, after the index
came to light on social media, Stanford hid it from public view. Without a password, you
wouldn’t know that “stupid” made the list.

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Staff Sgt Chaos

1 year ago

What will it take for the people rise against this leftist scourge destroying the country?

Um NOTHING now, I am ready to face that corruption of EVERY kind and DESTROY it NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

WHO’S WITH ME?

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jerex

1 year ago

Reply to  Staff Sgt Chaos

What will it take for the people rise against this leftist scourge destroying the country?

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Arsene Lupin

1 year ago

These maniacs have too much time on their hands, and are provided with too much money. They should be breaking rocks in a stone quarry.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Do not care what words they label as Racist, I will still use them. This is another attack on our 1st amendment (Freedom of Speech). The progressive commie demos will adopt it. The American Citizens must revolt against this garbage.

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ed

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

As the song goes when President Trump takes the stage at his rallies:

“I’m PROUD to be an AMERICAN….”

FJB
FStanfordU

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Harry Grimes

1 year ago

Stanford proves you can be full of worthless degrees and be a total and complete useless moron.

The country is called the United States of America. That means the countries name is America. Hence, the name of the people who live in the country America are called Americans as far as I know, there’s no other country in either continent, northern north or South America that is called America

These pernicious and malevolence radical leftists have much too much time on their hands and too much American taxpayer dollars. I will make it my mission in life to use every word and phrase they want to get rid of

In fact, today I’m going to brown bag, my lunch!

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Milffed52

1 year ago

Reply to  Harry Grimes

“It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.”—H. L. Mencken

Stanford nails this quote.

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George

1 year ago

Why is Stanford still using a white racist language like English?

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Andrew

1 year ago

The ONLY country on the entire American Continent from Alaska to Chile that uses the word America in the naming of their country is, you guess it, The United States of America, so where the hell is the problem with that?.
Every time I heard the morons Of The Left tell me what words I should and shouldn’t use I actually go out my way to bring those words into my conversation just to watch them explode.
Im old I dont care I need my simple pleasures.

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Michael

1 year ago

Stanford U sucks. They are the racist ones. Thanks for all the good work you do. THANKS

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Milffed52

1 year ago

I. Am. An. American.

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Don39

1 year ago

I say, this American says, that Sanford is a dung pit!

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Hardrock

1 year ago

I will repeatedly play American Woman on my music devices constantly. As performed by a Canadian Group.

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