U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’

U. of New Hampshire Students Actually Created a ‘Bias-Free Language Guide’ | Intellectual Takeout
Over the weekend I stumbled on an article in The Harvard Crimson that referenced the University of New Hampshire’s “Bias-Free Language Guide.”

...The “Bias-Free Language Guide” is something George Orwell would not have dared to dream. 

It’s eight pages of mantra on how to speak inoffensively on the following: age, class, race, culture, immigration status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, sex, gender identity … and it just goes on.

The document comes complete with a Gender Pronoun Guide, definitions and examples of microaggressions versus macroaggressions, and most importantly an extensive glossary of acceptable terminology and unacceptable terminology. 

A few highlights:

Preferred: Gay, Lesbian, Same Gender Loving (SGL)    

Problematic: “Homosexual”

Preferred: White people, European-American individuals    

Problematic: Caucasian people

 Preferred: Undocumented immigrant or worker; person seeking asylum, refugee    

Problematic: Illegal alien

Preferred: Sexual Minorities, Queer, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ)    Problematic: People of an alternative “lifestyle”

Read on!