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UWM says 'politically correct' is no longer politically correct

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The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The university’s 'Just Words' campaign aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact.'
These microaggressions include the words: 'lame,' 'thug,' 'trash,' and 'third world.'

The phrase “politically correct” is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The university’s “Just Words” campaign is the work of UWM’s “Inclusive Excellence Center” and aims to “raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact”—microaggressions like “politically correct” or “PC.”

 Merriam-Webster defines “politically correct” as “conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated.” The university, however, claims that calling something “politically correct” “has become a way to deflect, [and say] that people are being too ‘sensitive’ and police language.” “Politically correct,” moreover, is just one of a whole host of words and phrases the university has denounced as microaggressions.

The university also claims the word “lame” is a microaggression that somehow both “ridicules and ignores the lives of amputees” and therefore shouldn’t be used.

UWM also claims that using the phrase “third world” to describe third world countries is a microaggression because it “reinforces heirarchical [sic] attitudes towards nations around the world, [and] establishes Westernized (industrialized) countries and cultures as the ‘standard’ upon which to measure national well-being or economic status.”

Interestingly enough, while the university’s Inclusive Excellence Center has labeled several common-use adjectives harmful, the man running the campaign, Warren Scherer, the director of the university’s Inclusive Excellence Center, has taken to Twitter to express his displeasure with Republican presidential candidates in a non-inclusive manner.

Scherer tweeted “**** every fiber of your being” to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and also accused him of “pandering to Republican Jews.” Scherer, who identifies himself as an UWM employee on his twitter profile, also accused presidential candidate Rand Paul of courting “rich Jews.”

Nevertheless, Scherer’s department claims that the word “thug” is a microaggression because it “assumes that violence is the sole motivating factor in an action. Ignores issues of poverty, education and other institutional barriers. Used as synonym for *****/er.”

The “Just Words Campaign” also denounces the phrase “illegal alien” because it “fails to recognize the humanity of immigrants.” Words such as “crazy,” “trash,” and “welfare queen” are also on UWM’s list of microaggressions.

Neither Scherer nor Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Michael Laliberte responded to Campus Reform’s requests for comment.

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Through Just Words? and Just Words??, we seek to raise awareness of microaggressions, their impact, provide an insight into their meaning. We are not seeking to tell people what they can/cannot say'

http://uwm.edu/inclusiveexcellence/just-words/





seems like a reasonable (optional) resource,

Well MSNBC says 'hard worker' is dismissive of slavery, and belittles the black community, and stay at home moms. Oh, but ONLY when the phrase is used by conservative commentators.

The conversation was in regards to Paul Ryan becoming speaker of the house. A conservative commentator, (who is also a latino) speaks to the issue of how Ryan has been a 'hard worker' in Washington on immigration, and how he is respected by the latinos and democrats he has worked with.

The host agrees with the premise, but then suddenly lectures the speaker on how we have to be careful on using the phrase 'hard worker'. She notes that she has a picture that hangs on her office wall of slaves picking cotton, and how THAT is hard work, and how single moms stay at home but don't get called hard working, and how conservatives just call them welfare suckers, etc.

So here you take a conservative, merely complimenting another conservative on doing a good job, and it becomes a whole offensive language slavery/welfare/minority bashing conversation!

What the what???

There's a pic in the OPs link listing a few of the "offensive" words...

Thot....which is more of an acronym than a word. Guess it stands for "That Hoe Over There"

Welfare Queen...which just made me laugh

Trash...sorry, but 30something men in Affliction tshirts and flat billed caps ARE trashy

These people have too much time on their hands.....

Even liberal comedians have taken note of the lunacy going on at college campuses...


"" From " free speech zones" to " sensitivity
training" to " speech police ", it's dangerous
to say the wrong thing on a college campus
nowadays. Nobody knows that better than
professional comedians - and Chris Rock has
said it's the reason he has quit doing shows
for colleges.
In an interview with Vulture , Rock says
that the cult of political correctness never
went away. "It's back stronger than ever,"
he said, because "they think they can hurt
comedians."
I stopped playing colleges... [it's] their
willingness not to offend anybody. Kids
raised on a culture of “We’re not going to
keep score in the game because we don’t
want anybody to lose.” Or just ignoring race
to a fault. You can’t say “the black kid over
there.” No, it’s “the guy with the red shoes.”
You can’t even be offensive on your way to
being inoffensive.
...This is not as much fun as it used to be.
Rock further lamented the culture of social
media and offensiveness, saying that if a
comedian slips up even once, it'll get
blasted out on social media and that the
comic's career might be ruined. "It's scary,"
he said, "because the thing about comedians
is that they're the only ones who practice in
front of a crowd... if you think you don't
have room to make mistakes, it's going to
lead to safer, gooier stand-up.""
http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/12/01/what-chris-rock-said-about-political-correctness-should-make-college-students-gasp-n1925772

simpering Pansies,unfit to live outside an Institution!

No adult, anywhere in the world requires instructions on how to speak, or a list of appropriate or inappropriate or taboo words,
or a list of words that the media tries to change the defintion.

And neither do our children, who are being dictated to & perhaps indoctrinated. The State is not their parents.

20 yr old idealistic, utopian seekers have always been. The difference now is they are worried & fighting for the wrong things & being manipulated into helping to shape a society of drones....& they don't even know it.


Oh look...a squirrel.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/404794/

The Rise of Victimhood Culture

A recent scholarly paper on "microaggressions" uses them to chart the ascendance of a new moral code in American life.

Those two students in the link are in for one helluva real world wake up call

Oooh.. I have to read this again when I am less likely to throw my phone.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

The Coddling of the American Mind

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don’t like. Here’s why that’s disastrous for education—and mental health.

I commend those trying to have personal growth, which includes basic consideration of others

CONTEXT Means a lot, and it doesn't hurt to understand that calling someone who is mentally retarded a 'retard' may be hurtful

often times people just repeat words they hear (including adults) without thinking about their impact because its not THEM who is feeling that impact


so 'hard worker' in the context of 'my student is a hard worker' is not by itself dismissive or insulting

but 'hard worker' in the context of 'only hard working citizens should be able to vote' ,, where hard working is only a reference to earning an income

is dismissive and insulting to those who happen to work hard but earn none,,,

but 'hard worker' in the context of 'only hard working citizens should be able to vote' ,, where hard working is only a reference to earning an income.
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Talk about perception & interpretation....

"only hard working citizens should be able to vote"... Isn't about money.

It is giving credit to (hard) working, tax paying, American (legal citizens), that maybe they should be the only ones to vote as oppose to 'resident'

However, any person or group that finds the words 'hard working' offensive instead of flattering is probably a socialist & not a capitalist contributing to 'The Republic' they are living in... leaching off of.
If someone is illegal & has their hand out, ' citizen 'might offend them. Oh well...it is the truth.
Kind of like... ILLEGAL ALIEN.... Hhhaa. If we refer to them as 'Undocumented' it then REMOVES their crime & status, so they are not offended...& can (eventually vote).
No..

There are a lots of people that are aware of ' change the words, change the definition then you change the law & the thinking'.. & they aren't falling for it. I commend those for putting their personal growth & county first & aren't intimated or afraid of offending.

It is giving credit to (hard) working, tax paying, American (legal citizens), that maybe they should be the only ones to vote as oppose to 'resident'



isnt relevant to what I Said

I said 'only hard working citizens should vote'
that statement has no allusion to tax paying status, and tax paying status is not synonymous with how hard one 'works'

so the point still stands,,,

From your link....

"" OMETHING STRANGE IS happening
at America’s colleges and
universities. A movement is arising,
undirected and driven largely by
students, to scrub campuses clean of
words, ideas, and subjects that
might cause discomfort or give offense. Last
December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online
article for The New Yorker about law
students asking her fellow professors at
Harvard not to teach rape law—or, in one
case, even use the word violate (as in “that
violates the law”) lest it cause students
distress. "'

"" For example,
by some campus guidelines, it is a
microaggression to ask an Asian American
or Latino American “Where were you
born?,” because this implies that he or she
is not a real American. Trigger warnings are
alerts that professors are expected to issue if
something in a course might cause a strong
emotional response. For example, some
students have called for warnings that
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart describes
racial violence and that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and
physical abuse, so that students who have
been previously victimized by racism or
domestic violence can choose to avoid these
works, which they believe might “trigger” a
recurrence of past trauma.""


""Some recent campus actions border on the
surreal. In April, at Brandeis University, the
Asian American student association sought
to raise awareness of microaggressions
against Asians through an installation on
the steps of an academic hall. The
installation gave examples of
microaggressions such as “Aren’t you
supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m
colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash
arose among other Asian American students,
who felt that the display itself was a
microaggression. The association removed
the installation, and its president wrote an
e-mail to the entire student body
apologizing to anyone who was “triggered
or hurt by the content of the
microaggressions.”"

Gotdang what a buncha 18-20something year old pvssies...

This is classic indoctrination.

Two aspects of successful indoctrination are create fear and induce a sense of guilt.

I have conversations with these folks on a regular basis. Not *specifically* the people behind this specific campaign, but other members of their ideological tribe.

It is an absolute lie when they represent themselves as merely trying to help people be more considerate and kind to others. Some of them, maybe, but many others are part of a grass roots campaign that makes Orwell's 1984 seem tame. They wield immense social power in the under-25 group, and they control language in order to control thought.

The only reason they aren't demanding these words be outright banned is because they know there would be greater backlash if they did. Instead, they are starting smaller.

The problem I have with the bulk of these arguments about nomenclature, is that for the most part, NEITHER side is actually working to solve any problems.

The recent "anti-PC" campaign, just like the original PC campaign itself, started out to be about honesty and frankness and real communication, but it rapidly turned into yet another politicized distraction.

The Left pitches a fuss about how my handicapped child isn't to be insulted, while they continue to do nothing for him, just as the Right pitches a fuss about how everyone should show more respect for my child in the Marines, while working to cut his pay and benefits even more, in order to get more tax breaks for their friends.

A pox on them all.

As for Ryan, I'm sure he really is a hard worker. I and most of my friends are too. However, my friends and I are dramatically UNDERPAID for our hard work, whereas Ryan is wildly OVERPAID for his. So I wont put up with anyone claiming that Ryan's a hard worker just like I am.