When UNH created its Bias-freeLanguage Guide, we wrote stories that went national. Then UNH President Mark Huddleston made it disappear and talked about the University’s commitment to free and open speech.
Related: What did UNH Do with that Million Dollars from the Feds to Create Another Bias Awareness Guide?
The guide was gone, but the infrastructure that led to it remains in place to this day and on every campus, leading to repeated visits to this well.
Amherst College made news with theirs. UNH got a few buckets of your money from the Feds to create a new one, and I think the same program probably paid for this one at Stanford. The “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.”
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.
Translation: Mind control through speech control. Resistance is futile. The guide also violates every rule of writing speech or editing; less is more. If one word will do. Being #woke means more words.
A few more…
They are sorted by categories like Ableist, Ageist, Colonialism, Culturally Appropriative, Gender, Imprecise Language, Institutionalized Racism, Person First, Violent, and an “other” for the loose ends like Hip-Hip Hooray, which was “…used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods.”
Being #woke must be exhausting. It’s a wonder they have the time or energy for all of this. Of course, it might be because they are all “neurodivergent.”
stanford language bias free guide
