The Language Police at Stanford and USC (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_497)

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

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The Stanford document in question: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguage.pdf The USC letter can be seen in the following tweet: https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1613154300036800512?s=20&t=TRhy0Pe4juil4KYsOnqXHw My Psychology Today article from which I read: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/homo-consumericus/201312/the-follies-the-politically-correct-language-police _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 14, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1499: https://youtu.be/XvzCX_I7dsc _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's at I hope that you're having a good weekend
0:04.0	I wanted today to spend some time talking about language policing it's something that
0:10.9	I've discussed on countless occasions and later I will quote from an
0:16.0	article I wrote back in 2013 on my psychology today column regarding the language
0:21.6	police.
0:23.0	But for now, I want to talk about some of the recent
0:25.9	noble attempts to police the words that we use.
0:31.3	And for those of you who think, come on this is this is a silly
0:34.4	quest this is not important this happens in some quack place both of these
0:39.3	examples come from Stanford University and USC University Southern California.
0:45.0	So, prestigious university.
0:46.8	So here we go.
0:48.1	The first one is from, so let me read it here for you. Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.
0:56.8	The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a multi-phase multi-year project to address
1:01.6	harmful language in IT at Stanford University.
1:06.8	The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is one of the actions prioritized in the
1:11.0	statement of solidarity and commitment to action which was published by the
1:14.4	Stanford CIOC Council and the People of Color and Technology Affinity Group in December 2020.
1:24.3	The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate many forms of harmful
1:29.8	language including racist, violent, and biased, example disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic
1:36.2	slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias, language in Stanford websites and code.
1:43.1	The purpose of this website is to educate people about the possible impact of the words
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