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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by PaulRobinson on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:41PM (#34042002)
You can either care about how blind people feel through your usage of language or not care.

You don't get to say they should not feel that way.

Why not take it on good faith that this work was guided by research thar asked more blind people than you have? Once you accept thar you can then decide on whether you care or not and act accordingly.

All political correctness boils down to is politeness and not upsetting other people. If you don't care how they feel, crack on with this sort of rage posting.

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by chmod775 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:50PM (#34042113)
> All political correctness boils down to is politeness and not upsetting other people.

> If you don't care how they feel, crack on with this sort of rage posting.

Your post may be politically correct, but it is not polite. In fact you come off as quite rude compared to the person you are replying to.

> You don't get to say they should not feel that way.

If GP were to say how they should feel, clearly they would be caring how they feel. Also, why not? People discuss how one should feel in a particular situations quite often. In fact the page being discussed here seems to concern itself a great deal with what should upset people, even though most of the groups on whose behalf it appears to be judging what is offensive to them could have probably pointed these things out themselves - and I'm not sure everyone appreciates being paternalized this way (see "Latinx").

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by pannSun on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:51PM (#34042130)
> Why not take it on good faith that this work was guided by research that asked more blind people than you have?

Since they propose to replace Hispanic with Latinx, a term that most Hispanics reject [1], such faith is unwarranted.

> You can either care about how blind people feel through your usage of language or not care.

I propose an alternative dichotomy: I can prioritize truth, or I can prioritize the asserted feelings of the loudest complainers.

And as a commenter pointed out, "blind" in "blind review" is a positive, not a negative! A blind review is objectively better and more socially desirable than a non-blind one (and, correct me if I'm wrong, but is becoming prevalent in academia, so it is also normal instead of abnormal). We have more than enough evidence to conclude this document is insincere.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ASalazarMX on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:32PM (#34060387)
I'm Mexican and I hate LatinX with a passion. Why is our ethnicity offensive unless you make it different? Why are clueless college Americans trying to make proper Spanish taboo?
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by dmarcos on Monday December 19, 2022 @10:58PM (#34061369)
Even Latino is a made up ethnicity obvious for anyone that has traveled just a bit. Includes vastly different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In the US is politically convenient to put everyone in the same bland bag.

edit: typo

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:30PM (#34042852)
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I am legally blind and I'm 100% ableist because my daily lived experience is that being disabled is indeed both abnormal and a negative. Being disabled is is a constant burden and attempting to paper over that with politically correct language attempting to sweep that under the rug is both condescending and more than a little offensive.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by pannSun on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:39PM (#34043810)
Oh it's useful - it's just that the stated purpose doesn't match the intended purpose.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by deterministic on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:24PM (#34059844)
I recommend not telling people what they should say or feel. I find it deeply offending.