Stanford’s ‘Harmful Language’ List Mocked for ‘Sheer Insanity’

Dec 20 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
David Madison

Social media users have been poking fun at a new list of “harmful language” crafted at Stanford University—which includes supposedly offensive terms like “American,” “brave, and “addicted.”

While many of the phrases on the list, which grew out of an initiative by the Stanford CIO Council and People of Color in Technology, have been widely condemned for being rooted in oppressive history, other terms have raised a few eyebrows and sparked some aggressive online...

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