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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

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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