Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by thwarted on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:01AM
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Ford flipped the switch which he saw was now marked "Mode Execute Ready" instead of the now old-fashioned "Access Standby" which had so long ago replaced the appallingly stone-aged "Off"
~ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by kayodelycaon on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:13AM
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Full agreement here. Content Warning was and is a perfectly sufficient term. We’ve had them on TV shows for as long as I remember as “Viewer discretion is advised.” messages. They’ve been on the internet too as NSFW and NSFL.
Their primary purpose is for deciding if you want to view material in the first place.
Example from university: One of my media classes was going to show a clip of “Passion of the Christ”. We got a handout explaining the content of the movie and purpose of showing it and were told to opt out if we weren’t conformable. It all handled perfectly reasonably.
This list is not a reasonable way to handle this. It lacks nuance.
The only thing this list does is give credence to Tucker Carlson and co's complaints about performative wokeism.