STANFORD COMPILES LIST OF HARMFUL LANGUAGE IT PLANS TO ELIMINATE ON ITS CAMPUS

Dec 20, 2022

By Christine Ross

Share on

Stanford University has published an list of harmful language that it wants to eliminate because the terms are ableist, ageist, or racist.

The list includes the word American and calls for the term US citizen to be used instead as there are 42 countries in the Americas, and American implies that the US is the most important country.

In the culturally appropriate category, it says names should be used instead of ‘chief’ or ‘Pocahontas.’

It also asks for the term ‘abort’ to be changed to ‘end’ or ‘cancel’, instead of linking it to abortion and wants to remove the word ‘man.’

The site also suggests replacing ‘Karen’ with ‘demanding or entitled White woman’, while a ‘child prostitute’ could be changed to a ‘child who has been trafficked’.

The university created an index of forbidden words that it plans to  eliminated from its websites and computer code, with a list of alternative terms to replace them with.

Advertise With Us

To learn about advertising opportunities with Zoomer Radio use the link below:

Join Our Fan Club
Coverage Area
Downtown Toronto
96.7FM
Toronto HD
96.3 HD-2
Kingston to Windsor, Parry Sound to Pittsburgh
AM740
ZoomerRadio Logo

Recently Played: