The University of Michigan has a “Words Matter Task Force.”
Seriously. Maybe that’s why out-of-state tuition costs more than $66,000 a year.
The WMTF, set up by the school’s Information and Technology Services (ITS) department, has declared that it finds more than two dozen words and phrases possibly offensive to people, including “picnic,” “brown bag” and “blacklist.”
“To effectively communicate with customers, it is important for ITS to evaluate the terms and language conventions that may hinder effective communication, harm morale, and deliberately or inadvertently exclude people from feeling accepted to foment a healthy and inclusive culture,” the task force said in a memo.
The WMTF offers alternative words to use, for instance urging people to say “gathering” instead of “picnic” and “lunch and learn” instead of “brown bag.”
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Michigan has its problems.
This is utterly stupid, what in the hell is this country coming to. This bullshit is beyond belief!!!!
I looked at my birth certificate and nowhere does it guarantee that I won’t be offended or insulted from time to time.
Next on the chopping block: blackout, brownout, black tie, brown sugar.
I am surprised they did not change “Black Friday” this year!!! There is a lot of people of this country who have gone completely BRAIN DEAD when it comes to life. The Democrats throw the word “FREE” around and those idiots believe what they tell them. Wait until they find out they were lied to because “NOTHING IS FREE”