Now Learn the New English Language or Else

The English language has been revised at Stanford University.

Learn the changes. If you don’t speak or write correctly from now on, you can be indicted and possibly imprisoned for life. You have been warned!

It is worth glancing through. It is wonderfully unintentionally funny.

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“Content Warning: This website contains language that is offensive or harmful. Please engage with this website at your own pace.”
They use “Content Warning”, not the risky term “Trigger Warning” which they describe in the list under the category “Violent”.
This is utterly absurd. Anybody who takes that list seriously is surrendering autonomy and enrolling for language obedience training.
“The terms included here and our suggested alternatives are in alignment with those used by peer institutions” (Stanford webpage – in other words – Everybody’s doing this crap.)

The list is also available here…

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So not only do they destroy our language, they do it without anyone’s consent, and then if you don’t comply with it you’re arrested.
But us “unwoke” are the threat to democracy!

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davado, please identify your gender so we will know whether to address you as him, or her, and not “them”
Thanks

Davado has been permanently banned. He was intensely abusive.

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