{"id":1783028,"date":"2022-12-21T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783028"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T20:05:20","slug":"ctrlz-stanfords-it-department-walks-back-plan-to-purge-harmful-phrases-like-blind-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ctrlz-stanfords-it-department-walks-back-plan-to-purge-harmful-phrases-like-blind-study\/","title":{"rendered":"CTRL+Z: Stanford\u2019s IT Department Walks Back Plan to Purge \u2018Harmful Phrases\u2019 Like \u2018Blind Study\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fctrlz-stanfords-it-department-walks-back-plan-to-purge-harmful-phrases-like-blind-study%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=1783028&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>That was quick! Just 48 hours after the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> and the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> shed light on a Stanford University list of &#8220;offensive&#8221; words and phrases like &#8220;American&#8221; and &#8220;blind study,&#8221; the university would like to make a few clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>The university hid its &#8220;Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221218155108\/https:\/\/itcommunity.stanford.edu\/ehli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">behind a login page<\/a> Monday following widespread public criticism of its effort to purge &#8220;potentially harmful&#8221; language like &#8220;survivor,&#8221; &#8220;victim,&#8221; &#8220;blackbox&#8221; and &#8220;white paper&#8221; from university websites. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/itcommunity.stanford.edu\/news\/update-elimination-harmful-language-initiative-stanfords-it-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter posted<\/a> Tuesday evening, the university&#8217;s chief information officer Steve Gallagher said the guide &#8220;does not represent university policy,&#8221; nor &#8220;mandates or requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have particularly heard concerns about the guide\u2019s treatment of the term \u2018American,'&#8221; Gallagher wrote, referring to the blueprint&#8217;s assessment that &#8220;American&#8221; ascribed superiority to people from the United States. &#8220;To be very clear, not only is the use of the term \u2018American&#8217; not banned at Stanford, it is absolutely welcomed,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Free Beacon <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/bad-words-california-colleges-push-students-to-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Tuesday that Stanford\u2019s IT Department developed the guide in an effort to eliminate &#8220;gender-based&#8221; terms like &#8220;landlord,&#8221; and &#8220;ableist&#8221; phrases like &#8220;balls to the wall&#8221; which inappropriately &#8220;attributes personality traits to anatomy.&#8221; The blueprint also warned against the use of seemingly innocuous words like &#8220;blackbox,&#8221; noting that while they are not racist in themselves, they &#8220;assign negative connotations to the color black, racializing the term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guide even warned against using the progressive phrase &#8220;preferred pronouns,&#8221; since it &#8220;suggests that non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stanford\u2019s effort to police language reflects a trend across academia, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/meet-the-woke-nonprofits-behind-the-cdcs-inclusive-communication-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government<\/a>, media, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/report-reveals-just-how-much-the-dei-complex-has-infiltrated-medical-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the medical establishment<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/pfizer-hit-with-lawsuit-over-fellowship-that-excludes-whites-and-asians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corporate America<\/a> to police language and circulate new &#8220;woke&#8221; vocabularies. Principles of this new speech include erasure of any noted biological difference between men and women and a hyper-awareness of race and an attempt to wipe out references to physical infirmities like blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was quick! Just 48 hours after the Washington Free Beacon and the Wall Street Journal shed light on a Stanford University list of &#8220;offensive&#8221; words and phrases like &#8220;American&#8221; and &#8220;blind study,&#8221; the university would like to make a few clarifications.<br \/>\nThe post CTRL+Z: Stanford\u2019s IT Department Walks Back Plan to Purge \u2018Harmful Phrases\u2019 Like \u2018Blind Study\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1604,"featured_media":666142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[10984,8524,6962,3702,4092,10983,4724,4089,3729,10461,4025,10460,10985,4866,6054],"class_list":["post-1783028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-blind","tag-harmful","tag-the","tag-back","tag-beacon","tag-ctrlz","tag-department","tag-free","tag-like","tag-phrases","tag-plan","tag-purge","tag-stanfords","tag-study","tag-walks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}