December 21, 2022
Stanford’s language guide cautions against using word 'Americans'
By Eric Utter
As part of its “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” or EHLI, Stanford University recently published a 13-page language guide which suggests alternative words and phrases for those it deems offensive and triggering.
One word the guide says should never be used is “Americans”-- because the term “often refers to people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the U.S. is the most important country in the Americas (which is actually made up of 42 countries.)”
We sure as hell wouldn’t want to somehow “insinuate” that the United States is in any way more important or notable than, say, Aruba, Grenada, or Suriname.
But “American” is just one of dozens of words and phrases Stanford’s EHLI language guide warns us against employing. (We are to say “U.S. citizen” instead.)
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/stanfords_language_guide_cautions_against_wsing_word_americans.html
