ford Kindergarten // (Steven Hayward).
Maybe you’ ve seen the story on the Wall Street Journal article page today (or in a few other outlet where it truly is booming this morning) concerning Stanford University’ s ” Elimination of Harmful Terminology Initiative, ” which scans like a parody of our idiotic woke university culture these days. But no–Stanford employed an activity force that worked for ages to advocate that no-one on campus use the phrase ” American” because ” This term often identifies people from the United States simply, thereby insinuating that the US ALL is the most important country in the Unites states… ”
It all gets worse from here. Typically the Journal highlights and remarks aptly:
“Gangbusters” is banned as the index says it “invokes the notion of police activity against ‘gangs’ in a optimistic light, which may have ethnicity undertones. ” Not to conquer a dead horse (a expression that the index says “normalizes violence against animals”), however you used to have to get a graduate diploma in the humanities to write a thing that stupid.
Stanford has blocked use of the document from its site out of sheer embarrassment (ofcourse not very ” inclusive” of those to keep this helpful terminology guide out of sight), nevertheless copies were captured and therefore are available. I’ ve submitted it on Scribd here . But as Stanford warns inside boldface, ” This website contains terminology that is offensive or perhaps harmful. This site ” Can’ t consider we haven’ t followed this warning for Strength Line years ago.
Question for Stanford: When can we expect the particular If the answer is that it won’ t be, the next question is usually when they are going to stop typically the stupid process that generated this?
Since spectacularly stupid as this history is, the Journal perhaps buried the lede, which can be this sentence appearing nearby the end: ” For of sixteen, 937 students, Stanford provides 2, 288 faculty and 15, 750 administrative staff . ” [Emphasis added.] Stanford would improve immeasurably when?should they
P. S. Yes–we’ re also going to make it our mission to with this
