Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by walkhour on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:09AM (#34064802)

This list was bound to mix reasonable proposals with wild ones. So that when you point out the wild ones, you can be told "hey, but what about this very reasonable thing?".

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by skeeter2020 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:29AM (#34066360)

is the response then, "the universal reasonableness implies we don't need to guide and caution people from using it"?

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:15AM (#34066987)

They do expect you to apply your own professional and university level discretion when using words.

I really don't understand this thread or threads like this. Suddenly people are all about using exact lists of acceptable discourse and following Rules and the like.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by slothtrop on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:02AM (#34067759)

So now we're pretending there couldn't be consequences and a strong incentive not to use any and all terms listed?

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