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How Thoroughly Enlightened
Whatever happened to the old maxim I learned as a very young child: “Sticks & stones may break my bones, but whips & chains excite me words can never hurt me”? Seriously, we have somehow transitioned from a world where children are taught that words can’t hurt them, to one where we teach adults (ostensibly grown individuals) that it’s okay to be butt-hurt when someone says something you don’t appreciate.
Worse than that, we are now teaching that it’s somehow okay to share your butt-hurt with others in the hopes that your feelings are validated and cause an emotional sea-change within the offender which will prevent them from hurting others in the future. Assuming, of course, that they don’t just tell you to go f-k yourself.
The University of Michigan has spent a whopping $16,000 on a campaign telling students to watch what they say to avoid hurting other students’ feelings.
On posters and pamphlets plastered across its campus in Ann Arbor, the public college advises its 43,000 students to avoid words including ‘I want to die’, ‘crazy’, ‘gay’ and ‘ghetto’.
The notices are part of the university’s ‘Inclusive Language Campaign’, which hopes to ‘improve the day-to-day language of students on campus by providing education around words that are offensive’, student campaign representative Kidada Malloy told The College Fix.
Source: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=128057
