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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 dragonwriter on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:47AM (#34068482)
> I don’t think it is even fair to call what these “far left” people are doing “far left”

Institutional efforts at managing the internal environment and PR by notable right-wing institution Stanford University (home of the Hoover Institution) are not being done by people that are, claim to be, or are assumed by anyone else to be “far left”.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by throw__away7391 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#34069044)
> people that are...

Well that is my point.

> ...claim to be, or are assumed by anyone else

Gotta disagree there, in 2021 the self-identified breakdown was:

60.6% Democrat, 21.6% Independent, 9.1% Socialist, 4.9% Republican, 3.8% Other

(https://drive.google.com/file/d/16r96A47pFcXQF2Z2Ei7ZvoXyBe8...)

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:03PM (#34069668)
Even if that was the same population as crafting this policy, the vast majority of those identities are not “far left” by any sane definition.
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