Over the years many words have been deemed offensive. But Colorado has reached a new level of stupid when it comes to what word they are trying to ban now.
Colorado State University has told its students to stop using the word “American.” They are afraid that it may be offensive to those who are not Americans.
Not only that but they are also trying to ban a whole list of other words like “male”, “female”, and even the word “America” itself.
This is in an effort to be more “inclusive” for foreigners.
Campus Reform reports,
SU 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.”
“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.
Do people even think logically about these types of decisions before making them? This level of absurdity is mind-numbing. Some other words that have been deemed “non-inclusive” by the university are war, cake walk, freshman, and starving. Are these the kinds of people we really want to pay tens of thousands of dollars to teach you something?
