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It will be used as a convenient tool against anyone who goes against the groupthink of the day.


I doubt even this much is true. I truly believe this document will never be referenced outside of a promo doc or people making fun of it.


A friend of mine's mother is a researcher at a University and is in conflict with one of the department heads. She was denied some sort of career advancement over "You mentioned to someone that you liked the way they did their hair. This made your working environment unsafe for minorities as person could be reminded that their hairstyles are different than majority white styles [fwiw she also has exceptionally messy curly hair]".

Obvious nonsense, and the person who she complimented agreed. But when an administrator doesn't like someone, and needs to find a reason to cause them problems, this sort of list is a very useful tool. Maybe you don't even have to say it - "Professor X was found in repeated violation of our racial safety standards, and we just can't have racist staff".

I'll add that I don't have an issue with removing racist/bigoted language - but this list largely consists of obvious slurs that nobody needs a ruleset to avoid, or mundane words where no person would even begin to feel racist/offended outside of an administrator finding excuses to make more rules.


it will take very little time in the current climate for this to spread from the academic circles into the corporate world, where all the HR/ethics/etc deadweight departments have people with those worthless degrees

next thing you know, master is now main, blacklist and whitelist are allowlist and denylist, and so on




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