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@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford If anyone is "looking for" ways to be concerned, they sure don't need to look very hard. Reply 🧵
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The initiative clearly is at Stanford & whole pt of "initiative" is to persuade others to adopt, well, what shall we call this?

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford Steelman: "New norms for inclusive language."
Alternative view: "Language policing."
Why? Because of widespread *enforcement* of these "new norms" through punishments.

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford 1. Art history faculty fired after showing a medieval masterpiece depicting Mohammed. Not "language" exactly, but falls under broader categories of "expression" and academic freedom.
reason.com/volokh/2022/12…
Why? Bizarre allegations of "harm."

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford The only thing "Islamophobic" here was the admin's false implied belief that "all Muslms are the same." Or, as @AmnaUncensored put it, can you imagine not teaching evolution because it would "harm" evangelical Christians?
banished.substack.com/p/most-of-all-…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Film prof investigated, removed from teaching for showing a 1960s Othello in which the titular (Black) character is played by a White actor (in makeup, duh).
thefire.org/news/updated-u…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored My personal fav: I was denounced as racist by over 1000 academics for ... wait for it ... using a quote from Fiddler on the Roof.
unsafescience.substack.com/p/1200-academi…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored USC prof, in a class on x-cultural communications, suspended for daring to say out loud a Chinese word that merely sounds like a US slur.
nypost.com/2020/09/06/pro…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored White sign language translator fired from play for translating language spoken by Black actors.
spamchronicles.com/broadway-sign-…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored "Objectivity" is good, right? That's why we have umpires, referees, science and value honest reporters, right? Nope. Objectivity is White supremacy, as per an award-winning physicist.

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored You play golf? Don't watch or refer to the "Masters." Of course, this is about the word, not the tourney. You have a postgrad degree? Maybe don't call it a "masters" you racist you.
theblaze.com/news/the-maste…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Merit is good, right? You want to work with competents, not incompetents, right? Hard working people, people who stick to schedules, get things done? You racist you. From a Smithsonian exhibit (eventually removed).

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored So, my dear IT, even if it is some tiny little unit within Stanford, it is part of a much larger effort. They view themselves so benevolently, as rooting out racism&bigotry wherever it may be found.

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Be careful, IT. You may get what you, if not exacty wish for, but dismiss as trivially tiny when its not.

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored This *movement* can find it anywhere. The "narrative techniques" employed by this movement can render anything as the height of bigotry, including dog-walking, commenting on the beauty of the day, and Gandhi.
unsafescience.substack.com/p/is-everythin…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored When will they come for you, IT? Who knows, but this big data analysis was fired for...wait for it...ready? Tw'ing an article by a Black Princeton sociologist showing that peaceful protests are more persuasive than violent ones.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Was Komi "looking for" things to be concerned about? Perhaps. But one need not look very hard. This sort of language policing, expression suppression, and *imposition* of new norms is all around you.

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Of course, lived experience is not *always* self-serving nonsense. In this essay, a Russian emigre, now USC Chem prof, compares these developments to life under the totalitarian Soviets. She concludes, not the "same," but disturbing similarities.
hxstem.substack.com/p/from-russia-…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored You know anyone who lived under communism? Ask them. Thank the gods, we don't. But academia has become a hotbed of this sort of nonsense. Have they been indoctrinates or do they merely think alike? Who cares? What matters is that they think alike. From a recent dissertation:

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored Indeed, there is now a whole genre of lived experience reports id'ing disturbing echoes of communist totalitarianism. This, from a Chinese emigre:
unherd.com/2020/07/americ…

@AndrewJ73405114 @HonestNauman @Komi_Frey @Stanford @AmnaUncensored I recently attended a lovey social event hosted by a family of ethnic, often immigrant, Ukrainians and Poles. To a person, they are appalled at what is happening here. They came here to escape this nonsense.
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