{"id":1781626,"date":"2022-12-20T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781626"},"modified":"2022-12-20T12:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:17:57","slug":"youre-not-american-thats-offensive-youre-a-u-s-citizen-stanford-u-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-not-american-thats-offensive-youre-a-u-s-citizen-stanford-u-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re Not \u2018American.\u2019 That\u2019s Offensive. You\u2019re A \u2018U.S. Citizen,\u2019 Stanford U Declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoure-not-american-thats-offensive-youre-a-u-s-citizen-stanford-u-declares%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Liberals are so thin-skinned that words constantly wound them. Deeply. So they\u2019re constantly redefining words to ease their pain.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Stanford University. The vaunted California institute of higher education has published an index of \u201charmful language\u201d as part of an initiative to eliminate and replace words it deems offensive.<\/p>\n<p>The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a \u201cmulti-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/login.stanford.edu\/idp\/profile\/SAML2\/Redirect\/SSO?execution=e1s2\">guide<\/a>. The guide\u2019s purpose is to eliminate \u201cmany forms of harmful language,\u201d including \u201cracist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language\u201d on Stanford\u2019s websites.<\/p>\n<p>The guide has 10 \u201charmful language\u201d sections: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations. The guide was rolled out in May, but has been gaining notoriety in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>One word the university deems inappropriate is \u201cAmerican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Americans shouldn\u2019t say they\u2019re \u201cAmerican.\u201d Instead, they should say they are \u201cU.S. citizens\u201d because \u201cAmerican\u201d often refers only to \u201cpeople from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S. is the most important country in the Americas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImmigrant\u201d is also verboten. Instead, use \u201cperson who has immigrated.\u201d Also, best to use four words to replace one word.<\/p>\n<p>The university wants to do away with the word \u201cabort,\u201d as in to end something. Stanford says to use \u201ccancel\u201d or \u201cend\u201d to avoid the moral connotations of abortion. \u201cChild prostitute\u201d becomes \u201cchild who has been trafficked\u201d so as not to imply the child has chosen the profession.<\/p>\n<p>And \u201cKaren\u201d is out. Instead, use \u201cdemanding or entitled white woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cableist\u201d section also raises some eyebrows. The university asks people to use \u201caccessible parking\u201d instead of \u201chandicap parking\u201d and \u201canonymous review\u201d instead of \u201cblind review\u201d (although, to be fair, blind people aren\u2019t really going to see the term \u201cblind review,\u201d are they?).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlind review,\u201d Stanford says, \u201cintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People also shouldn\u2019t say \u201ctone deaf\u201d but rather \u201cunenlightened.\u201d And \u201caddict\u201d is such a horrible word. Say \u201cperson with a substance abuse disorder,\u201d please.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGangbusters\u201d is banned because the university says it \u201cinvokes the notion of police action against \u2018gangs\u2019 in a positive light, which may have racial undertones.\u201d And \u201cbeat a dead horse\u201d \u201cnormalizes violence against animals,\u201d the index says.<\/p>\n<p>Colleges are where most fragile liberals reside. In 2020, a college professor declared \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d racist (even though the Oxford Dictionary defines the phrase as \u201ca thing or person that can be won, obtained, or persuaded with little effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor African-Americans, if you say \u2018low-hanging fruit,\u2019 we think lynching,\u201d said Mae Hicks-Jones, an adjunct faculty member of Elgin Community College in Illinois, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/curl-pc-police-finally-scalp-the-redskins-move-on-to-low-hanging-fruit\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandfathered\u201d is also racist, she said, according to a report in The College Fix. To Hicks-Jones, the phrase \u201cgrandfathered in\u201d is reminiscent of a grandfather clause, which privileged white people\u2019s right to vote over that of black people during the Jim Crow South.<\/p>\n<p>What words are next? No one knows. But somewhere \u2014 right now \u2014 a team of professors is compiling another list of offensive words. That much you can be sure of.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"7d17120e180d151e080f113d191c1411040a140f18531e1210\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals are so thin-skinned that words constantly wound them. Deeply. So they\u2019re constantly redefining words to ease their pain. Enter Stanford University. The vaunted California institute of higher education has published an index of \u201charmful language\u201d as part of an initiative to eliminate and replace words it deems offensive. 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