"The University of Michigan is helpfully alerting student to the next wave of forbidden words that are suddenly deemed racist, including “picnic,” and “brown bag.”
...The report outlining the latest forbidden, wrong think words was published this month by the university’s Words Matter Task Force which “evaluated the terms and language conventions that may hinder effective communication, harm morale, and deliberately or inadvertently exclude people from feeling accepted to foment a healthy and inclusive culture.”
The task force now advises that people should avoid using problematic words such as “privileged account,” “handicapped,” “blacklist,” “crazy,” “grandfathered,” and “dummy.”
The school’s Information and Technology Services department, which created this absurd task force, claims to be a “trusted enabler of technology for the U-M community.”...Read all.
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