Stanford University released an index of "harmful language" to erase from the school's websites, including the terms "American" and "Hispanic."
Here it is: everything wrong with higher education in one story about Stanford University. Stanford, of course, is an elite American institution. Except according to its own speech code, it can’t be “American,” because that term is verboten.
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The word "American" is one of dozens on the chopping block under Stanford University's Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, launched in May by the Stanford IT Department to eradicate "racist, violent and biased" language in websites and code.