Stanford pulls 'harmful language' list

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/11/amid-backlash-stanford-removes-harmful-language-list

by nverno • 4 years ago

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barbarr• 4 years ago

I managed to digitize and archive it on Github [1] in case anyone's curious what was there.

[1] https://github.com/naveenarun/StanfordHarmfulLanguage

turrican• 4 years ago

“Balls to the wall” is an aviation idiom, similar to “maximum thrust”. It refers to the ball on the end of a throttle being pushed to the firewall when wide open.

I don’t know if it’s the only error made by the HR rep that through this together.

JellyBeanThief• 4 years ago

It wasn't put together by an HR rep.

throwaway1851• 4 years ago

Sadly, no, it was the product of 18 months of collaboration between a committee and “stakeholder groups”. Had it been made by a single overzealous HR person, that would’ve been significantly less embarrassing for Stanford.

cute_boi• 4 years ago

Too much pedantry doesn't work. Maybe focus on education?

Rebelgecko• 4 years ago

The administration must continue to grow in order to meet the needs of the expanding administration

steponlego• 4 years ago

One fun one to look out for, is healthcare, one word. It’s a neologism that means the network of companies and government functionaries which control your access to health care, two words.

FrontierPsych• 4 years ago

I was going to contact Stanford and other universities. I detest the words "the," "at," the number "four/4," and the letter "b" and was going to ask them to put those words on the list of harmful language. Maybe it doesn't harm many other people, or maybe I'm the only one - so what? If I am offended and harmed, then I am offended and harmed.

Stanford pulls 'harmful language' list

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