“Brandeis University got some unwanted publicity last week when its “Oppressive-Words List” became public.
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Avoiding these words, the university says, will prevent those who have “experienced violence” from being further hurt. The rules aren’t mandatory, but by allowing the list to be circulated on an official site, Brandeis has lent its authority to a thought-stifling mechanism — a tragic turn events for a school named after Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, an ardent free-speech champion.
Among the verboten words: “picnic” (because of a bogus claim that the word is associated with anti-black lynchings in the South) and “trigger warning” (because the word “trigger” might evoke violence;
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“The document also seeks to erase from conversation such inoffensive language as “take a shot at,” “killing it,” “you guys,” “ladies and gentlemen,” “no can do,” as well as objectively descriptive terms such as “prostitute,” “addict,” “mentally ill,” “homeless,” “wheelchair-bound” and even “victim” and “survivor” on the dubious grounds that they are hurtful.“
https://nypost.com/2021/06/28/brandeis-u-takes-woke-language-policing-to-new-depths-of-stupidity/