Jun 24, 2021 04:03 AM
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Some surprises in the five category lists of new taboo words and expressions, like "victim" and "people of color" being canceled
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ty...r-n1456342
INTRO: Back in 2013, campus activists started demanding the policing of speech. They pushed to ban “microaggressions” (words or phrases that may offend certain minorities often unintentionally) and demanded “trigger warnings” before professors assigned certain controversial reading materials. Recently, the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC) at Brandeis University released a new list of verboten words and phrases — and “trigger warning” itself has been canceled, along with words like “victim,” “addict,” “survivor,” “tribe,” “picnic,” and even the phrase “people of color.”
That’s right, the Woke language police have turned on the previously Woke phrases “trigger warning” and “people of color.” Revolutions devour their own rather quickly these days.
The language police at PARC break down the verboten “Oppressive” words and phrases into five different categories: violent language, identity-based language, “language that doesn’t say what we mean,” culturally appropriative language, and “person-first alternatives.”
“PARC recognizes that language is a powerful tool used to perpetrate and perpetuate oppression. As a community, we strive to remove oppressive language from our everyday use. This list is meant to be a tool to share information and suggestions about potentially oppressive language,” PARC explains. Ever so helpful!
Trigger warning: Here comes the “violent” language!
All kidding aside, PARC claims that “violent language in this list may be explicitly or implicitly violent expressions and metaphors that are used casually and unintentionally. These examples can be easily replaced by saying something more direct.”
Apparently, phrases like “Killing it” or “Take a stab at” offend those pristine Brandeisian sensibilities. Fans of Boondock Saints will laugh at reading the old Karen complaint about the phrase “rule of thumb,” which of course has an ugly history but which has nothing to do with beating wives today. PARC also shares the false claim that the word “picnic” traces back to “lynchings of Black people in the United States.” In reality, it traces back to the 1600s French term “pique-nique.”
Yet the best part of the “violent language” document is, of course, the cancellation of the phrase “trigger warning.” According to the fine upstanding totally-not-racist Woke language police at PARC, “The word ‘trigger’ has connections to guns for many people; we can give the same head’s up using language less connected to violence.” According to PARC, “Content note” or “Drop-in” will suffice, so “trigger warnings” are out.
Yet “violence” is far from PARC’s only deep concern about “problematic” language. “Identity-based oppressive language,” the language police so helpfully inform us, “includes a range of word and phrases including slurs, unhelpful euphemisms [sic], and exclusionary words and phrases.”
Good little Wokesters at Brandeis will avoid “gender exclusive language” like “Ladies and Gentlemen,” “Policeman,” “Freshman,” and those dreaded pronouns “He” and “She.” Instead, PARC recommends gender-neutral versions of as many words as possible, and the Woke dictum “Ask their pronouns!” (MORE)
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/ty...r-n1456342
INTRO: Back in 2013, campus activists started demanding the policing of speech. They pushed to ban “microaggressions” (words or phrases that may offend certain minorities often unintentionally) and demanded “trigger warnings” before professors assigned certain controversial reading materials. Recently, the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC) at Brandeis University released a new list of verboten words and phrases — and “trigger warning” itself has been canceled, along with words like “victim,” “addict,” “survivor,” “tribe,” “picnic,” and even the phrase “people of color.”
That’s right, the Woke language police have turned on the previously Woke phrases “trigger warning” and “people of color.” Revolutions devour their own rather quickly these days.
The language police at PARC break down the verboten “Oppressive” words and phrases into five different categories: violent language, identity-based language, “language that doesn’t say what we mean,” culturally appropriative language, and “person-first alternatives.”
“PARC recognizes that language is a powerful tool used to perpetrate and perpetuate oppression. As a community, we strive to remove oppressive language from our everyday use. This list is meant to be a tool to share information and suggestions about potentially oppressive language,” PARC explains. Ever so helpful!
Trigger warning: Here comes the “violent” language!
All kidding aside, PARC claims that “violent language in this list may be explicitly or implicitly violent expressions and metaphors that are used casually and unintentionally. These examples can be easily replaced by saying something more direct.”
Apparently, phrases like “Killing it” or “Take a stab at” offend those pristine Brandeisian sensibilities. Fans of Boondock Saints will laugh at reading the old Karen complaint about the phrase “rule of thumb,” which of course has an ugly history but which has nothing to do with beating wives today. PARC also shares the false claim that the word “picnic” traces back to “lynchings of Black people in the United States.” In reality, it traces back to the 1600s French term “pique-nique.”
Yet the best part of the “violent language” document is, of course, the cancellation of the phrase “trigger warning.” According to the fine upstanding totally-not-racist Woke language police at PARC, “The word ‘trigger’ has connections to guns for many people; we can give the same head’s up using language less connected to violence.” According to PARC, “Content note” or “Drop-in” will suffice, so “trigger warnings” are out.
Yet “violence” is far from PARC’s only deep concern about “problematic” language. “Identity-based oppressive language,” the language police so helpfully inform us, “includes a range of word and phrases including slurs, unhelpful euphemisms [sic], and exclusionary words and phrases.”
Good little Wokesters at Brandeis will avoid “gender exclusive language” like “Ladies and Gentlemen,” “Policeman,” “Freshman,” and those dreaded pronouns “He” and “She.” Instead, PARC recommends gender-neutral versions of as many words as possible, and the Woke dictum “Ask their pronouns!” (MORE)
RELATED: Brandeis U: Don't say 'policeman' or other 'offensive' language ...... Critical Race Theory ...... Bill Maher Mocks Leftist Progressophobia