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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 crackercrews on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @04:47PM (#34073112)
Have you never heard of bias response teams? People can literally be reported for using language that someone else heard and was offended by. This list would be used as proof that a particular word is harmful.

But it seems like you live in a very different world, where you don't have to worry about such things. I hope you enjoy it while it lasts! It sounds quite lovely.

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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ModernMech on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:38PM (#34074498)
> People can literally be reported for using language that someone else heard and was offended by.

You can literally report anyone for anything to HR since forever. Consider them the original bias response team. The important difference is that in academia, bias response teams don’t have the power to fire or discipline anyone.

> This list would be used as proof that a particular word is harmful.

This list is only evidence of potentially harmful language, as that’s all it purports to be. That a word is on this list is not proof that it is defacto harmful.

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