Stanford University has published an index of “bad language” that it plans to remove from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to use as replacements.
The Harmful Language Elimination Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the guide.
The guidance says its goal is to eliminate “many forms of harmful language,” including “racist, violent, and biased language (eg, disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) ” on the Stanford websites. and code. She added that she strives to educate people about the impact of words.
There are 10 “harmful language” sections described in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriate language, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, putting people first, violence, and others.
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Stanford University has published an index of “harmful language” that the school plans to remove from its websites and computer code.
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Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term “American.” Instead, people are asked to use “US citizen” because “American” generally refers to “people from the United States only, implying that the US is the most important country in the Americas.” The Americas, the index notes, comprises 42 countries.
Other terms considered harmful in this section include “abort,” which offers the replacement for “cancel” or “end,” due to moral concerns about abortion; “girl prostitute” is replaced by “trafficked girl”, so the person is not defined by a single characteristic; and “Karen” is replaced with “demanding or entitled white female.”
In the trained section, the index encourages people to use “accessible parking” instead of “handicapped parking,” “suicide killed” instead of “committed suicide,” and “anonymous review” instead of “blind review.” “. It also says that people should use “unenlightened” as a replacement for “deaf” and “person with a substance use disorder” as a replacement for “addict.”
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The Harmful Language Elimination Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a “multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford,” according to the guide.
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The index does not offer an alternative for “brave” in the culturally appropriate category, but rather cautions against using the word at all. This section also asks that people use a person’s name instead of “boss” or “Pocahontas.”
In the gender-based section, the index says to use “pronouns” instead of “‘preferred’ pronouns” because “preferred” suggests that “non-binary gender identity is a choice and a preference.” The section also advises against words like “freshman,” “firefighter,” and “congressman” because “gender binary parlance” isn’t inclusive of everyone.
The institutionalized racism section says to avoid using words like “black hat,” “black mark,” and “black sheep” because of the “negative connotations of the color black.” It also says to avoid the use of “exempt” and use “legacy status” instead, due to “roots in the ‘grandfather clause’ adopted by southern states to deny voting rights to blacks.” .
The guidance says its aim is to remove “many forms of harmful language”, including “racist, violent and biased” language.
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The index also discourages the use of language with “violent” words included. These terms include “hitting a dead horse”, “pulling the trigger”, “trigger warning”, and “killing two birds with one stone”.
Many of the index terms offered longer alternatives for terms that described a person by a characteristic. These terms include replacing “immigrant” with “a person who has immigrated,” “prisoner” with “a person who is/was incarcerated,” and “homeless person” with “a homeless person.”
