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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: bounty44


do you understand the expression "do you walk to school or carry your lunch?"

No.

smiles...

it means the two things don't have anything to do with each other. almost like "apples and oranges" but better I think.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

And here they go again:

The University of New Hampshire has a "Bias-Free Language Guide" on its website, which "is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community."

Terms such as "American," "homosexual," "illegal alien," "Caucasian," "mothering," "fathering," and "foreigners," are deemed "problematic."
According to the university’s website, the guide “is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community.”
WTF?

Terms also considered problematic include: “elders,” “senior citizen,” “overweight,” “speech impediment,” “dumb,” “sexual preference,” “manpower,” “freshmen,” “mailman,” and “chairman,” in addition to many others.

Saying “American” to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes “U.S. citizen” or “Resident of the U.S.”

The guide notes that “American” is problematic because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country inside [the continents of North and South America].” (The guide doesn’t address whether or not the terms “Canadians” and “Mexicans” should be abandoned in favor of “Residents of Canada” and “Residents of Mexico,” respectively.)

Using the words “rich” or “poor” is also frowned upon. Instead of saying “rich,” the university encourages people to say “person of material wealth.” Rather than saying a person is “poor,” the university encourages its members to substitute “person who lacks advantages that others have” or “low economic status related to a person’s education, occupation and income.”

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6697

And on...and on...and on...

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

And here they go again:

The University of New Hampshire has a "Bias-Free Language Guide" on its website, which "is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community."

Terms such as "American," "homosexual," "illegal alien," "Caucasian," "mothering," "fathering," and "foreigners," are deemed "problematic."
According to the university’s website, the guide “is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community.”

Terms also considered problematic include: “elders,” “senior citizen,” “overweight,” “speech impediment,” “dumb,” “sexual preference,” “manpower,” “freshmen,” “mailman,” and “chairman,” in addition to many others.

Saying “American” to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes “U.S. citizen” or “Resident of the U.S.”

The guide notes that “American” is problematic because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country inside [the continents of North and South America].” (The guide doesn’t address whether or not the terms “Canadians” and “Mexicans” should be abandoned in favor of “Residents of Canada” and “Residents of Mexico,” respectively.)

Using the words “rich” or “poor” is also frowned upon. Instead of saying “rich,” the university encourages people to say “person of material wealth.” Rather than saying a person is “poor,” the university encourages its members to substitute “person who lacks advantages that others have” or “low economic status related to a person’s education, occupation and income.”

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6697

And on...and on...and on...

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

And here they go again:

The University of New Hampshire has a "Bias-Free Language Guide" on its website, which "is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community."

Terms such as "American," "homosexual," "illegal alien," "Caucasian," "mothering," "fathering," and "foreigners," are deemed "problematic."
According to the university’s website, the guide “is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community.”

Terms also considered problematic include: “elders,” “senior citizen,” “overweight,” “speech impediment,” “dumb,” “sexual preference,” “manpower,” “freshmen,” “mailman,” and “chairman,” in addition to many others.

Saying “American” to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes “U.S. citizen” or “Resident of the U.S.”

The guide notes that “American” is problematic because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country inside [the continents of North and South America].” (The guide doesn’t address whether or not the terms “Canadians” and “Mexicans” should be abandoned in favor of “Residents of Canada” and “Residents of Mexico,” respectively.)

Using the words “rich” or “poor” is also frowned upon. Instead of saying “rich,” the university encourages people to say “person of material wealth.” Rather than saying a person is “poor,” the university encourages its members to substitute “person who lacks advantages that others have” or “low economic status related to a person’s education, occupation and income.”

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6697

And on...and on...and on...

If you go to the actual site, instead of just the "news" reports about it, you'll see this in large letters:

"The views expressed in this guide are NOT the policy of the University of New Hampshire. UNH supports free speech on all of our campuses."

http://www.unh.edu/inclusive/bias-free-language-guide

So no, here we don't go again, other than "reporters" inventing the "news"

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I think this one is even better Music:)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/30/the-story-behind-the-university-of-new-hampshires-bias-free-language-guide/

snipped for brevity and fun

What has followed is a takedown of what a young conservative journalist and his editors regarded as a kind of fiendish political correctness happening at the University of New Hampshire. Of course, the guide at the center of this story is itself intended as a takedown on cultural insensitivity. Wheels within wheels.

Let me explain.

CampusReform.org is an online publication. It deploys a five-person staff and a team of almost 50 paid campus correspondents (students) against what the publication considers the twin scourges of leftist bias and abuse on the nation's college campuses.


CampusReform.org is no ordinary college publication. It's wholly funded by the Leadership Institute, a Virginia-based nonprofit that aims to equip and train young conservative activists, journalists and future candidates, Morton Blackwell, a Reagan White House aide and the institute's founder and president, told me.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Of course, it's not their policy...they know they couldn't get away with forbidding the use of those 'problematic" terms...it's only on their website to show you the "free speech" they prefer.

If you can find ANYWHERE in my post where I...or anyone else...states that it is their policy, bring it forth.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

K.......Not my words dear, but dont let that stop you.
CD....
you want dumb progressive issues just fine, but when someone points out its a conservative line of bullshit, you get all jittery.
maybe you should look into your claims a little closer before posting, this is the 3rd time you have done this....its becoming quite the habit...

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

I think this one is even better Music:)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/30/the-story-behind-the-university-of-new-hampshires-bias-free-language-guide/

snipped for brevity and fun

What has followed is a takedown of what a young conservative journalist and his editors regarded as a kind of fiendish political correctness happening at the University of New Hampshire. Of course, the guide at the center of this story is itself intended as a takedown on cultural insensitivity. Wheels within wheels.

Let me explain.

CampusReform.org is an online publication. It deploys a five-person staff and a team of almost 50 paid campus correspondents (students) against what the publication considers the twin scourges of leftist bias and abuse on the nation's college campuses.


CampusReform.org is no ordinary college publication. It's wholly funded by the Leadership Institute, a Virginia-based nonprofit that aims to equip and train young conservative activists, journalists and future candidates, Morton Blackwell, a Reagan White House aide and the institute's founder and president, told me.

Oh My God...how horrible...CONSERVATIVE activists at a university!

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Of course, it's not their policy...they know they couldn't get away with forbidding the use of those 'problematic" terms...it's only on their website to show you the "free speech" they prefer.

If you can find ANYWHERE in my post where I...or anyone else...states that it is their policy, bring it forth.

This is exactly the dishonest silliness that creates the low regard I have for your "arguments." That it's their policy is the point of the articles and the thread.

And again. . .

If you go to the actual site, instead of just the "news" reports about it, you'll see this in large letters:

"The views expressed in this guide are NOT the policy of the University of New Hampshire. UNH supports free speech on all of our campuses."

http://www.unh.edu/inclusive/bias-free-language-guide

So no, here we don't go again, other than "reporters" inventing the "news" -- and posters who can't tell the difference.

This circus also displays a complete ignorance of how college websites work. In addition to the official pages, separate groups, departments, and even individuals have server space where they post their individual stuff.

Since we're now established it's this group spoofing correctness by silly exaggeration, the entire basis of both the "news" reports, this thread, and poster outrage and/or eye-rolling on it are thoroughly discredited.

Learn your lessons and move on, instead of doubling down on stupidity.