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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by skeeter2020 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:25AM (#34066304)
But that's how this type of ridiculous become standard practice: you include a few unambigous examples, then the rest lean on them for support. Did Stanford really need an official document telling their community that the word "jewed" probably should be avoided? If so, there are lots of worse words and phrases not included here, why not? How did they decide the word "tarball" should be included because it starts with the same three letters as a derogatory term, but "tarsands" (along with being technically inaccurate) is OK?

No one said words can't be hurtful. If you work or attend Stanford you know these words. This document is apparently about harm reduction though, and that harm would be mitigated far more effectively if Stanford admitted more people like the ones these words supposedly trivialize.

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by alex028502 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:39AM (#34067384)
No not because of the first three letters. the three letters of the replacement are the same. It must be for some other reason