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Ugh, taking this stuff too far is stupid.

Even just something like "blacklist", "whitelist"; it has nothing to do with the modern black skin white skin world of racism - literally every culture on this planet has similar associations with the colours white/black...

It's almost like primitive cultures could only observe the Sun and our planet's day/night cycle and based it all of daytime = safe, nighttime = unsafe.

Also: was the page always behind a login? Or was it moved behind one once it created controversy?

Man = "This term reinforces male-dominated language." ahaha, for a university they should study a little more: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mann#Old_English.

Also checking this list, and as a gay man myself, they've missed a whole class of people in their silly list.



No, a few days ago this page was public.




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