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It's typical "I'm helping!" feel-good activism achieving exactly nothing at best, negative gains at worst.

But hot damn some are terrible. I'd even go as far to say that some are worse insult as original, calling someone "non-vocal, non-verbal" instead of just "dumb" sounds like a better burn than original.

"This proposition was clearly written by someone neither vocal nor verbal"



The word “abort”, as in “abort mission” is on the list. It’s as if a whole generation somehow avoided the concept of words having multiple meanings.


Anybody who actually thinks normal people use "dumb" to mean non-vocal is dumb, and I can only wish I meant they were non-vocal.


I heard it used in the non-vocal sense once in a Perry Mason episode, and it took me a minute or two to realize what they meant.


I grew up with the phrase “deaf and dumb” and it did not once occur to me the other meaning of dumb in the context of this phrase or similar “non-vocal” context. But ever since someone corrected me that’s all I can think.


Yeah, I heard "blind, deaf, and dumb", but never in actual context until then.


Also very telling on those that created it that there isn't a classism section.


See, you're already seeing it as insulting someone; that's a you issue. Intent is important there.

If your intent is to describe someone as non-vocal, you can use inoffensive language; you'll sound more cleverer, too.


Mankind is being retarded by committees manned by supposed gurus that are actually just Karens who circle the wagons and beat the dead horse of insisting that the rest of the world is just a bunch of racist ableist hicks.


As a rule of thumb, I tend to ignore blacklists like this and just go about my business.

Btw it looks like Stanford has thrown up a login wall on the site, which is … amusing.


"Alt-right/neo-nazi/white-supremacist trolls flood Stanford's inclusive language page with hateful comments, University limits the page to students and faculty only."

Welcome to the basket of deplorables!


I am confused by your comment. He is demonstrating that the alternative words can be used offensively if that is one’s desire. Why is that a “you” issue?




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