University of New Hampshire: Using the Word “American” is Offensive
by Paul Joseph Watson
Using the words “American,”
“obese,” “normal,” “mothering,” “fathering,” “homosexual,” “illegal
alien,” and “senior citizens,” is offensive and should be discouraged,
according to a “Bias-Free Language Guide” posted on the University of
New Hampshire website.
The guide, first uncovered by Campus Reform, “is meant to invite inclusive excellence in [the] campus community.”
The word “American” is “problematic”
according to the guide because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country
inside [the continents of North and South America].”
Calling people “illegal aliens” is
also politically incorrect, with the preferred term for undocumented
immigrants being “person seeking asylum,” or “refugee,” while the word
“foreigner” is discouraged and replaced with “international people.”
More banned words and phrases include;
– “Caucasian (replaced with “European-American individuals”);
– “Mothering” and “fathering” (replaced with “parenting” and “nurturing” so as to “avoid gendering a non-gendered activity”);
– “Homosexual” (replaced with “gay,” “lesbian,” “same gender loving”);
– “Obese” or “overweight” (replaced with “people of size”);
– Saying a person is “poor” (replaced with “person who lacks advantages that others have”);
– Saying the word “healthy”
because it’s offensive to disabled people, who can’t be called disabled,
they must be called a “person who is wheelchair mobile”).
“Terms also considered problematic
include: “elders,” “senior citizen,” “overweight” (which the guide says
is “arbitrary”), “speech impediment,” “dumb,” “sexual preference,”
“manpower,” “freshmen,” “mailman,” and “chairman,” in addition to many
others,” writes Peter Hasson.
The guide also rails against
“ciscentrism,” which “includes the lack of gender-neutral restrooms,
locker rooms, and residences” at the university.
To his credit, the president of the University of New Hampshire Mark Huddleston responded to the story by asserting that the guide was not official campus policy.
“I am troubled by many things in
the language guide, especially the suggestion that the use of the term
‘American’ is misplaced or offensive,” he said. “The only UNH policy on
speech is that it is free and unfettered on our campuses. It is ironic
that what was probably a well-meaning effort to be ‘sensitive’ proves
offensive to many people, myself included.”
Meanwhile, Republican State
Senator Jeb Bradley has vowed to take the guide into consideration next
time lawmakers decide how much money to give to the university.
“Implying the word ‘American’ is
not appropriate to use on campus is un-American to say the least,” he
said. “Will UNH next propose to change our Live Free or Die motto to
Live Free but Upset No-One?”
The University of New Hampshire is
by no means the only educational institution that is attempting to
encourage censorious codes of political correctness on campus that
completely contradict the notion of universities being bastions of free
speech.
Earlier this month we reported on how
the University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point) was teaching faculty
members that all manner of harmless behaviors and phrases were examples
of “racial microaggressions.”
The examples included; Asking
someone where they are from or where they were born, telling someone
they speak good English, telling someone that you have several black
friends, saying that you’re not a racist, and complimenting an Asian
person by telling them they are very articulate.
Orwell's Ministry of Truth is alive and well at U of NH -- They obviously have a "Department of New-Speak" and this "Bias-free language guide" is its first politically correct grammar text, deconstructing as it does the First Ammendment re free speech. Big Brother is probably the chancellor at U of NH and I'll be sure not to send any of my children there.
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