[ April 24, 2024 ]
“American” is a non-inclusive word that should be avoided. The most inclusive country in the history of the world. The inevitable catastrophe of the left’s war on reason and reality. This is a war on the primitive versus the intellect. In any war between the civilized man and the savage, fight!
Colorado State: ‘Avoid’ using ‘Americans,’ ‘America’
By Ethan Cai, Campus Reform,
- Colorado State University lists “America” and “American” as words to avoid.
- The university’s Inclusive Language Guide also claims that “handicap parking,” “male,” and “female” should be avoided, along with many other common words and phrases.
Colorado State University claims that “American” is a non-inclusive word that should be avoided.
Story continues below advertisementCSU’s online Inclusive Language Guide, compiled by the school’s Inclusive Communications Task Force, lists certain words and phrases to avoid while providing replacements in an effort to help “communicators practice inclusive language and [help] everyone on [its] campus feel welcomed, respected, and valued.” The school’s Women and Gender Collaborative website directly links to the document.
“This erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country” Tweet ThisCSU lists both “American” and “America” as non-inclusive words “to avoid,” due to the fact that America encompasses more than just the U.S. By referring to the U.S. as America, the guide claims that one “erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country.” The school suggests using “U.S. citizen” or “person from the U.S.” as substitutes.
The university additionally lists many gendered words and phrases to avoid. These include “male,” “female,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and “Mr./Mrs./Ms.”
“Male and female refers to biological sex and not gender,” says the guide. “In terms of communication methods (articles, social media, etc.), we very rarely need to identify or know a person’s biological sex and more often are referring to gender.”
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“Straight” is another word to avoid, according to CSU. The guide explained that “when used to describe heterosexuals, the term straight implies that anyone LGBT is ‘crooked’ or not normal,” and says to use the word “heterosexual” instead.
“Normal person” was also listed as a phrase to avoid because it “implies that ‘other’ people… are not whole or regular people.” The guide offered no substitute word because it claimed that it is never appropriate to use the phrase to describe someone.
According to the list, the phrase “handicap parking” should also not be used because it can “minimize personhood” and offend disabled people. The guide recommends “accessible parking” as an alternative.
“War,” “cake walk,” “eenie meenie miney moe,” “Eskimo,” “freshman,” “hip hip hooray!”, “hold down the fort,” “starving,” and “policeman” were among other words and phrases deemed non-inclusive by CSU.
CSU states that the document listing terms and phrases to avoid is “not an official policy or required practice,” but rather “is intended as a resource to help our campus community reflect our Principles of Community, particularly inclusion, respect, and social justice.”
“The guide is not about political-correctness or policing grammar, but rather helping communicators practice inclusive language and helping everyone on our campus feel welcomed, respected, and valued,” the guide continues.
“The guide certainly does encompass a great deal of everyday, common expressions, and it is possible that the speech of some students will be chilled if they are confused into thinking that the document represents official policy of the university,” Azhar Majeed, spokesman for the free speech advocacy nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told Campus Reform.
“However, given the introductory language…I think it would be unlikely that any student carefully reading the guide would be mistaken and led to believe they could face disciplinary action for their speech,” Majeed added.
Nicole Neily, president of Speech First, told Campus Reform that “even though these guidelines are suggested and not mandatory, they place students in the uncomfortable position of reciting politically correct talking points that they may not agree with. Words like ‘American,’ ‘male,’ and ‘female’ are used every day by billions of people around the world. When these students graduate, they’re in for a rude awakening!”
Aaron Allen, who is a third-year student at CSU, also reacted to the “guidelines,” telling Campus Reform, “what about the term ‘African-American’? Should I not use that term to describe myself?”
Campus Reform has previously reported that CSU warned against using gendered emojis to make social media interactions more inclusive.
In a statement to Campus Reform, CSU spokesman Mike Hooker said:
The version that Campus Reform, the Collegian, and one of our employees have shared online was a preliminary draft that was still under construction/revision back in October when the student newspaper posted it, and the language in question was removed before the document was finalized and released in January by the people who wrote it. Attached is the final version of this guide which was created as a resource for members of the CSU staff who had specifically requested this guidance. The old (October) link from the Collegian which you have in your original story from Wednesday was the preliminary draft that was still under discussion among internal members of the involved group. The preliminary draft was also posted by a CSU employee for discussion purposes back in the fall (not the final attached here that the people working on it eventually agreed on in January) and it never got taken down.
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44 Comments
4 years ago
The collegiate ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ staff, whose head makes $175K per year on avg., needs to keep issuing edicts in order to remain relevant. Like the EPA does, in order to justify their existence.
A suit needs to be filed in order to clear this up. It has become nonsensical.
4 years ago
The LGBTQ supremacist “leadership” now completely controls every avenue of Colorado, and things like this are the fruits of this infiltration which is as ominous and insidious as Muslim infiltration of our institutions especially under Obama.
As well, the business of Ber(ser)keley, CA, striking “gender specific” pronouns, is another drive to impose this primitive ideology on the rest of society. Besides the promotion of transgenderism being a war on masculinity (by cutting off their manhood via “reassignment surgery”) and on women (the invasion of “trans” people onto women’s sports, bathrooms, showers and locker rooms), it is likewise part and parcel of the Left’s war on reason and reality and should be resisted. Anything supported by the likes of Ilhan Omar and Antifa should be resisted by any means necessary.
This kind of thing is why all federal $$ should be cut off to so-called “higher” education.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
What group of people have always been the biggest proponents of the homosexual agenda onto Christian societies?
4 years ago
Reply to
RhymesWithNews
Take your loaded trick questions and shove them up your appropriate orifice. It is the COMMUNIST LEFT that has sought to normalize homosexuality.
4 years ago
Words the college can’t seem to get away from. Lunacy, stupidy, jack ass. simply another institution run by the inmates. This college needs adult supervision…..And an enema.
4 years ago
The university additionally lists many gendered words and phrases to avoid. These include “male,” “female,”…
I submit that humanity cannot be intelligently reviewed or commented upon without a recognition of two sexes (not withstanding that there are various forms of “intersex” that exist at the margins). And that, at our soi-disant “institutions of higher learning”, may be what is intended here. Truly, “ignorance is strength”.
I very much resent being taxed at gunpoint to support this pernicious twaddle.
4 years ago
They’re not to proud to take AMERICAN tax dollars. Let’s cut those commies off. Bring back the HUAC for universities. All commies should be removed from our schools. They are infecting young minds with their vile treason.
4 years ago
Perhaps be start by avoiding any American federal dollars to this school
4 years ago
Reply to
brock marks
THAT WOULD BE A GREAT START – for this as well as any/all colleges that violate students’ Freedon of Speech / Assembly.
” By referring to the U.S. as America, the guide claims that one “erases other cultures and depicts the United States as the dominant American country.” OF COURSE it’s the dominant American country – you’re in AMERICA. Oh good grief!
“The school suggests using “U.S. citizen” or “person from the U.S.” as substitutes.’ “…gee doesn’t that EXCLUDE all those IMMIGRANT NON CITIZENS – including the illegal ones???
4 years ago
Reply to
brock marks
i graduated from CSU in the 60’s. It was called the Aggies for a reason: CSU is a federal land grant A & M (Agriculture & Mining) university. The letters A & M were etched in the foothills in plain view of the campus.
The student body included local farmers and ranchers. Degrees in forestry, engineering, mining geology, and veterinary medicine were among the top rated. This University would not have existed without the Federal Government. The Ski resort towns have beckoned to the looney left and destroyed this once patriotic AMERICAN state.
4 years ago
Screw these Leftists. They’re all a bunch of N a z i s.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Agree. Left/Liberal pro-jihadis/anti-nationals politicians/media/universities are corrupt paid shills for islam . paid by saudi/qatar/OIC
Merkel govt funded Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals run propaganda to create more sex slaves out of little children like in UK https://tinyurl.com/yd9jo5mf
Do these scumbags have any conscience ?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
This is what occurs when the mentally retarded are allowed to smoke pot 24/7.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY:
The same university that produced Al-Queda’s Top Recruiter – Anwar Al-Awlaki
“Go Rams!”
(not)
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
Useful information … and somehow not very surprising …
You and yours have an excellent week TD!
4 years ago
Here is an addition for all the people on the language Guide committee: f—ing a$$holes.
4 years ago
The term “American” is non-inclusive? OK, name one other power on the South or North American continents to whom the Axis powers in WWII surrendered.
4 years ago
Don’t you EVER listen to one word they say. This is another way of DESTROYING you and losing your TRUE identity.
4 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
“This is another way of DESTROYING you and losing your TRUE identity.”
So is flooding this country with millions of illegal aliens out to cancel out all our votes in future elections. In that case, destroying America and her cultural and national identity.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was the beginning of America’s death as a unified nation. Jews were behind the law, promoting, lobbying, and “bribing” the law into existence. Jewish organizations (e.g. American Jewish Congress, The Jewish Federation, the ACLU, B’nai B’rith, etc…) filed briefs in support of open immigration before the Senate Subcommittee in the early sixties leading up to the passing of the 1965 law. The names of the Jews behind the law are Senator Jacob Javits (NY), Congressman Emanuel Celler (NY), Leo Pfeffer (Former President of American Jewish Congress (AJC), and Norman Podhoretz (Writer and Member of The Council of Foreign Relations). Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), chosen to be the “goyim” face of the law by his Jewish handlers to help fool European Americans by asserting that “the bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs”, is exactly what they hoped to accomplished with the law as part of their anti-white agenda. Prior to 1965, the demographics of immigration stood as mostly Europeans; 68 percent of legal immigrants in the 1950s came from Europe and Canada. Now, white people are becoming a despised minority in their own countries by Jewish design.
“Abolish the White Race – By Any Means Necessary”
“The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed White supremacists.”
“We’ll keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as the White race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”
– (((Noel Ignatiev))), Jew Harvard professor and founder of Race Traitor, 1993
“Yes, diversity is about getting rid of white people, and that’s a good thing.”
“I’m extremely glad that the white race is dying, and you should be too. White people do not have a right to exist, period.”
“Diversity is indeed white genocide, and white genocide is exactly what the world needs more than anything else.”
– (((Emily Goldstein))), Jewish Professor of Critical Race Theory, Thought Catalog article, May 26th, 2015
4 years ago
Reply to
RhymesWithNews
Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were the biggest proponents of that 1965 act. Both leftists. All those “Jewish” organizations have stabbed or been stabbing Israel in the back and taking sides with HAMAS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS et al. All those “Jews” are IN NAME ONLY, total traitors for whom LEFTISM is their true “religion.”
4 years ago
The far-left fascists now control the education system.
4 years ago
Interesting and stupid that CSU is saying America is ‘non-inclusive’ since our motto is E Pluribus Unum: “Out of many: One”
I’d say that is inclusive as you can get..
Another fascist directive from our education system…
4 years ago
The inmates are truly in charge of the asylum. A true example of a Rocky Mountain high. Victimhood for all is the mantra of these loons who all need to be placed in an asylum where desperately needed , emergency lobotomies are performed.
4 years ago
This is an example how democracy destroys itself.
4 years ago
What a absolute, utter rot.
4 years ago
What a crock of crap!
4 years ago
Is it legal to command, to insist, to suggest with consequences, if such advice is not
followed, concerning how people should, or must speak?
These suggestions are subconsciously making people afraid to speak.
This is not to be tolerated.
Why do the citizens in that state support this attack in their rights?
This has to stop.
This liberal, whatever they think they are, must understand, it is virtually impossible for adults to assimilate a new language, into their normal way of speaking.
It is too stressful.
Who are they to say this is right? The nerve of them.
Vote right, vote Republican and end this assault on our rights.
Where are the donors, the students parents, the students themselves? Have they nothing to say?
Fools, wake up.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tm.
There is another term for this: Supremacist, neo-colonialist and culturally imperialist.
It is no different from the Dutch, after colonializing South Africa, imposing the made-up “Afrikaans” language which wasn’t even indigenous to the peoples of that country.
4 years ago
Just say “NO” to Leftist control.
Give them an inch and they will take a mile.
4 years ago
Why stop there? What about other normative classes like Night and Day, Winter and Summer, Up and Down, In and Out? Certainly Educated and Moron have become synonymous!
4 years ago
I am so sick of this. Leave our language alone.
4 years ago
This BS has been brewing since the sixties.”Be the Man” is paying off for them..Everything and anything leftarded morons touch turns to shiite.These so-called “Higher Learning” facilities are no more than indoctrination centers for those who pay to be brainwashed by Bolshevik Professors and turned against their own country.
Clean up in aisle 3.
Semper Fi
4 years ago
enemy inside
4 years ago
Sane Patriotic Americans should start and refer to “progressive” / Democrats as degenerates which is by far the most accurate depiction of what fundamentally defines them!
Democrat voting, “progressive” degenerates promote / support the worst, most oppressive and DEGENERATIVE (of human & civil rights / prosperity & human potential / Freedom itself) ideologies devised by Man, like Communism / Marxism / socialism / ultra Globalism (global rule of Elites) / Islam… Using radical propaganda methods (PC police / 1984-“Newspeak” / multiculturalism / cultural relativism / victim mentality / etc etc) on a Gigantic (wide & deep) scale in order to swindle / hoodwink / brain wash… (from cradle to grave) Literally Generations of useful “progressive” idiots that loath them selves, loath America, loath Jews and will eventually be committed to a bloody revolution / second civil war…
Thank God we have our guns…
4 years ago
What about the other two-tit mammals on this planet please ?! These and of course all with more tits must be respected and consequently included, especially because they all have different races and brain capacities and unequal length tails in various places – and we must be happy and eager to get also included, because after the right inclusions donkeys and monkeys along with the Homines Sapientes of Colorado State University will be the most amazing conglomerate in the Central Inclusion Camp of Colorado-World – let’s share!!!
While diversity must include acceptance and respect for all creatures of all kinds, it can not be a problem to make up for any mental or physical discrepancies. Remember, the WORD is stronger than all FACTS.
So: FACT yourselves, moronic includers …
4 years ago
Just can’t fix STUPID with ignorant libturd anti-Americans!!!!!
4 years ago
see what happens when you let lefties from cali take over your state like Locust they destroy everything in their wake and devastation just like Oregone
4 years ago
To set things straight, I am a patriot of America and I am PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!!
4 years ago
We will now encourage President Trump to end all funding to Colorado State University and expect for it to pick up its educational establishment and relocate to a foreign country. We have plenty of great universities and can do quite well without them. As President Trump said, “Love it or leave it!” We have enough division in our nation as it is without universities stupidly jumping on the band wagon to further divide our nation. Won’t miss them if they leave.
4 years ago
Higher education has become a joke that is no longer funny.
