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Vekril
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 Posted: 03/04/03 - 10:52 Post subject: political correctness in textbooks
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| Quote: | This month's Atlantic Monthly includes an exert from Diane Ravitch's new book, The Language Police, that is either amusing or horrifying beyond belief depending on your point of view. The piece is a simple list of words and phrases banned by major textbook publishers and their suggested alternatives.
Unfortunately, the piece is not online. It's worth the trip to the newsstand, though.
The best among many:
Blind leading the blind, the (banned as handicapism)
Busybody (banned as ****, demeaning to older women)
Confined to a wheelchair (banned as offensive; replace with "person who is mobility impaired")
East, Eastern (banned as Eurocentric)
Elderly, the (banned as ageist; replace with "older people")
Fairy (banned because it suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf")
Founding Fathers, the (banned as ****; replace with "the Founders" or "the Framers")
Huts (banned as ethnocentric; replace with "small houses")
Jungle (banned; replace with "rain forest")
Little person (banned as offensive; replace with "person of small stature")
Lumberjack (banned as ****; replace with "woodcutter")
One-man band (banned as ****; replace with "one-person performance")
Regatta (banned as elitist)
And the best (Stalin’s minions couldn’t have come up with this one):
Mother Russia (banned as ****; replace with "Russia, vast land of rich harvests")
www.tonguetied.us
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sinrakin
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 11:17 Post subject:
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Funny shit 
So primitive peoples don't live in huts, they live in small houses? Would those be tiny little colonials? Or possibly miniature capes, with itty bitty dormers?
I don't know, they're all funny. I don't have time to mock them all.
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Vekril
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Location: Jersey
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 11:35 Post subject:
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I would venture that primitive is a big no-no also Sin...
perhaps they would be referred to as "people of alternate cultural advancement?"
the horrifying aspect of it is that this is what our children (if we have any) will be learning...
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Reebo
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Location: Downtown Miami
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 12:27 Post subject:
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O.k so i guess i am not so smart because i didn't know there was such a thing as being an ageist.
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Akronn
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 13:30 Post subject:
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Ageism is everywhere in the work force, man. It hardly ever works against younger folks... so I'm not too surprised you haven't heard of it. I know my father had a tough time finding a new job this past winter when his former employer let him go (whole damn place is going out of business now). He caught wind that a few possible employers he interviewed with weren't too sure about his 'energy level.' That's discrimination and that's a lawsuit if he wanted, but he finally got a new job anyways.
*shrug* Ageism is popular in music too. Stations don't like playing older artists, it isn't 'cool' although they're usually fifty times better than the crap that they do force down our throats (or ears I guess lol).
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The Gossipmonger
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Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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Location: The Balkans
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 13:40 Post subject:
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| Vekril wrote: | | this is what our children (if we have any) will be learning... |
I believe the technical term for Children is Adult Challenged.
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Clevinger
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 13:46 Post subject:
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these people have warped minds
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Reebo
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Posted: 03/04/03 - 14:24 Post subject:
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Well i know of the pratice i did not know it was called Ageism.
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