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2021-08-26 -Great Cultural Revolution

Woke Brandeis University expands list of words, phrases to avoid using

[NYPOST] A newly expanded list of language to avoid using at one ultra-woke college now warns against joking about obsessive-compulsive disorder — unless you’ve actually been diagnosed with it.

More than a dozen words and phrases have been added to Brandeis University’s widely mocked compendium of "~~violent~~ mostly peaceful" and "identity-based" terminology ahead of the start of its fall semester on Thursday.

But the elite Massachusetts institution’s Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center, which compiled the list, also notes that what "may be offensive for an outsider to say might be acceptably used by a member of that group."

The additions include, "’I’m so OCD’ (outside of actually having OCD)."
And don't refer to a "leg." It's a "limb."
The PARC’s "suggested alternative" — for those who don’t "actually" have OCD — is "I’m very organized, detailed oriented."
They're not legs or arms; they're "extremities"
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Big Shirley was still trying to snatch Nunzio bald-headed. She was already halfway there...
the staffers and students who run the PARC even washed out their own mouths earlier this month, changing the name of the "Oppressive Language List" to the "Suggested Language List."
They're not "underwear;" they're "unmentionables."
A footnote on the introductory webpage says that "we retitled this list to center the suggested alternatives rather than the words and phrases that may cause harm."
You're not "in the bathroom" you're "indisposed."
The new additions also include "whipped into shape," which PARC says can evoke "imagery of enslavement and torture."
You're not "dead." You've "passed on."
Instead, students and staffers at the school in Waltham — which charges more than $76,000 a year for tuition, room and board, and a mandatory "activity fee" — are advised to say "organize," "spruce up" or "put in order."
And "truth-challenged" instead of "dishonest"
A new collection of "~~violent~~ mostly peaceful idioms about animals" contains "more than one way to skin a cat," "killing two birds with one stone" and "beating a dead horse."
And don't forget "precocious" instead of "badly behaved"

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