The University of Michigan has a โWords Matter Task Forceโ (WMTF). Parents pay $66,000 a year for out-of-state children to be told they can’t use words like “picnic,” “brown bag,” and “blacklist.”
โTo effectively communicate with customers, it is important for ITS [Information and Technology Services] to evaluate the terms and language conventions that may hinder effective communication, harm morale, and deliberately or inadvertently exclude people from feeling accepted to foment a healthy and inclusive culture,โ the task force said in a memo.
They not only have dozens of words you can’t use, but they have suggestions for alternatives. Instead of picnic, say “gathering,” and instead of “brown bag,” you can say “lunch and learn.”
“Lunch and learn” is completely unclear.
THEY’RE NOT EVEN KNOWLEDGEABLE
The lunatics think ‘picnic’ is tied to lynchings, but it’s actually a 17th-century French word with no relationship to lynchings,ย The Daily Mailย reported it just means ‘gatherings.”
The task force also said โoff the reservationโ should be replaced with โoutside the normsโ or โrogue.โ
“Low-hanging fruit” is also banned.
โFor African-Americans, if you say โlow-hanging fruit,โ we think lynching,โ said Mae Hicks-Jones, an adjunct faculty member of Elgin Community College in Illinois.
โGrandfatheredโ is also racist, she said, according to aย reportย in the College Fix. To Hicks-Jones, the phrase is reminiscent of a grandfather clause. She says that gave privileged white peopleโs right to vote over black people during the Jim Crow South. [Jim Crow laws were put in place by Democrats]
DON’T CALL ME ‘SWEETIE’
Other unacceptable words are “men, men, guys, gals, honey, crazy, sweetie,” and on and on it goes. The alternatives are even more ridiculous. No one will know what we are talking about if we adopt this lunacy.
Then there’s L’Oreal. The largest cosmetics company in the world announced that it would remove words like โwhitening,โ โfair,โ and โlightning.โ
โThe LโOreal Group has decided to remove the words white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightning from all its skin evening products,โ the French cosmetics giant said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.
This is lunacy.
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