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"Stanford" - may refer to noted racist and Asian-exclusionist Leland Stanford. Also may refer to related location formed originally as a whites-only educational
by erosenbe0 4y ago
"Stanford" - may refer to noted racist and Asian-exclusionist Leland Stanford. Also may refer to related location formed originally as a whites-only educational enclave on indigenous lands.
- kmonsen 4y agoYeah if they want to go full political correct that is probably the best place to start.
- coffeeblack 4y agoAnd of course the “Master’s” degree.
- quickthrower2 4y agoNow called a Main’s degree
- btach 4y agoI almost spit my tea out. You made me laugh.
- kleene_op 4y agoThat's too close to the spelling of the word Man, which would be exclusionary of the woman gender. Let's call it a Human's degree. Or better yet, a Being's degree. Let's not be speciesists.
- hef19898 4y agoScentient, please. But let's not use the New Order's classification of species as scentient or not.
- quickthrower2 4y agoOr elementist (Silicon vs. carbon)
- jazzabeanie 4y agoHuman has the word man in it, so let’s use huperson
- TeMPOraL 4y ago"Terran" is an established term.
- pc86 4y agoI think you missed the joke, friend.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThat's exclusionary of beings not native to Terra.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThat's not going to be an issue. There are zero such beings known so far, no hard evidence they even exist, and we're not going to find or create ones any time soon - the same people who engage in language policing also currently dislike space exploration for various ideological reasons.
- skjoldr 4y agoWell the colonizers didn't know that Native Americans existed before landing in America, and look what happened. We must prevent any and all such occurrences in our interplanetary future by only using a non-specieist vocabulary.
- kamma4434 4y agoIt’s so obvious that if colonizers had used inclusive language, everybody would have lived in peace. Though maybe labelling them ‘colonizers’ and not ‘welcome guests’ was only the first of a set of micro aggressions that precipitated the situation.
- Pigalowda 4y agoHuman ends in “man” and has already been regarded as offensive to “people” or “persons”. Being when referenced to an organism is only used in context of “human” (offensive) or an “alien” (offensive). Anything that is referential to an offensive word must be struck as well. No word should ever create a mental reference to a banned word nor should a substitute word create a mental suspicion or guess of what the original offensive word was. A new vocabulary must be formed -newspeak if you will.
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- agentwiggles 4y ago> Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.
- lo_zamoyski 4y agoYou're discriminating against non-beings.
- schappim 4y agoBeing brought up in multicultural Australia, I was colourblind [1] to race. I find it hard to even remember what ethnicity my peers were. As such, I have no hate of other races but I'm filled with hate every time my "git push origin master" fails because the branch is now called "main". [1] How was this word not on the list?
- 8ytecoder 4y agoAdd aliases to your gitconfig. Not gonna solve the frustration but at least it doesn’t have to be a trigger (oops). Also, I much prefer trunk over main/master anyway so I just went back to that.
- PrefixKitten 4y agoI hope you've got a big trunk, because I'm going to put my bike in it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- schappim 4y agoThank you! I had no idea one could alias branch names. Why be woke, when you can be aliased awake.
- lo_zamoyski 4y ago"Being brought up in multicultural Australia, I was colourblind [1] to race." Tell that to Ibram Kendi.
- erosenbe0 4y agoHe can't believe that kids in racially integrated environments are efficient thinkers largely concerned with simple priorities. Is Billy a bully? Should I pick Alice first in the game on the sandlot? Can Jose help me with this math problem?
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- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI'm not very smart and would prefer it just being called a university degree, to describe where you get it from. I mean what the fuck is a sophomore?
- TeMPOraL 4y agoYou're not wrong; it would probably make sense to have first/second/third level degrees instead of BSc/MSc/PhD (and their equivalents). We might even get there eventually. But the reason this would be desirable has nothing to do with etymology of "master's degree" (or "bachelor's degree"), nor with the hypocrisy of a university declaring the word "master" as offensive, while not renaming the corresponding degree.
- quickthrower2 4y agoSophomore is an oxymoron: > From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.
- thequux 4y agoOnly in the UK. In the US, it's better known as a Line Degree.
- thinkingemote 4y agoit would be even easier to say that "Bachelors" degree is worse on multiple woke levels except perhaps race.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoPhD isn't any better - the Ph stands for "philosophy", which ostensibly is about "love for wisdom", but it's clear etymologically that phílos + sophía isn't exactly ungendered.
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- trilbyglens 4y agoMight explain some of the existential self-loathing embodied in this list...
- chrisbaker98 4y agoStanford also contains "Ford", a possible reference to the notorious anti-semite Henry Ford. I propose renaming the institution after a more acceptable historical figure, one whom most undergraduates don't think did anything wrong: Stalin.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThis should not be considered hyperbole. These people will write entire books which can be summarised as "Pol Pot did nothing wrong" [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chomsky_and_Herman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
- wholinator2 4y agoThey have an email link to submit additional words. We're I not early in my academic career and worried of potential repercussions, I would be emailing these suggestions to them. Though I worry if they wouldn't just add them all to the list rather than understanding the message.
- malandrew 4y agoFunny you mention this because it reminds me of the time I pointed out that Chief Seattle owned slaves and committed a genocide against the Chimmicum people. I forgot the context in which I made this observation but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of people of historical significance would merit cancelling by today’s standards. The road where on can’t lead anywhere but renaming anything just so a younger generation can claim superiority over older generations whom they are forcing to adopt their new vernacular at risk of cancellation. “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” —Philip K. Dick