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afroggybanana t1_j27h32q wrote

Reply to comment by _RedditDiver_ in Context in comments by _RedditDiver_

Neat. I agree. I think it's unlikely that a reasonable person would mistake "American" for "Non-US North American". Perhaps the point of contention is related to Native Americans versus citizens of the USA. That too I think is a weird and unrealistic angle though. Who knows

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afroggybanana t1_j27gkee wrote

Reply to comment by timidyellow in Context in comments by _RedditDiver_

I feel like you must be intentionally missing the point. This is not teaching material. It doesn't distract from the content of courses. It's not related at all to student activities or curriculum. It's a list of words that the IT department wanted to have an internal discussion about concerning content on the school's website. Something along the lines of "Do you guys think we're okay to use the word 'damn' on the school bookstore's website?"

Also, I've never heard someone say they've been "grandmothered" into an outdated pricing plan. And I'm not sure in which context you think you would choose one over the other. But that's beside the point.

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afroggybanana t1_j277lza wrote

Reply to comment by timidyellow in Context in comments by _RedditDiver_

The reason someone might call out "American" is because Canadians also live in North "America". The reason someone might call out "Grandfather" as in "this student was grandfathered into the system where..." is because it's a gendered word.

Again, these aren't reasons to not use those words, they're not widely offensive, and they're not on a ban list. They're on a list of words that someone somewhere might find exclusive, and they're on that list as a sort of catalogue so they can be discussed internally in Stanford's IT dept.

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