Stanford releases guide to eliminate ‘harmful language,’ cautions against calling US citizens ‘American’

Fox News |  Dec. 20, 2022

Stanford University published an index of “harmful language” it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements.

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the guide.

The guide says its goal 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. It added that it strives to educate people on the impact of words.

There are 10 “harmful language” sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.

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4 Comments on Stanford releases guide to eliminate ‘harmful language,’ cautions against calling US citizens ‘American’

  1. As they say, the first casualty of war is truth. However, with long term institutionalized take downs of whole countries such as the United States, indeed the whole western world, the first casualty is – language.

  2. I am an American, I will say I am American. Stanford University has very low Academic status. If you have the
    money you can go there. Some of the buildings are falling down. It is a pit, and decaying. Such disgusting institutions have no right or status to tell others what they can or cannot say. The Second Amendment does that.
    Freedom of Speech, stand on the Constitution and hold that ground!

  3. The Stanford ‘standard’ is what worldism is all about: the total abolition of any & all distinction amidst the ruins of our distinctive civilized past thanks largely to the ((rat race)) & the other liars that be.

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