I know that facts don't matter so much during a moral panic, but I'll just say that I teach a class every year at Stanford that tackles hate speech, violence, terrorism, child exploitation, suicide and other really difficult topics and use a lot of these words with no difficulties.
I do give my students a talk up front about the content of the course and the need to be resilient if you want to make a positive impact in this field, but so far no complaints.
https://reason.com/2022/12/21/stanford-elimination-harmful-language-speech-karen-american/
@alex Nothing new under the sun. I remember conservatives at Stanford ridiculing some memo about using “master” or “slave” to describe drives. That must have been about 1990. As here, it appeared to have very little impact on anybody’s life. I see that Robby notes at the end that Stanford has a “tip line,” but not whether it’s ever been used for using one of these words.
@elfprince13 @Popehat @alex how Robby hasn't transitioned yet to OAN or something like it is beyond me.