Stanford's Elimination of Harmful Language (In IT) Initiative [pdf]

There was a big thread about this already:

Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34039816 - Dec 2022 (384 comments)

We'll move the comments thither.

So, I'm 42 at the time this took place. I had just gotten a divorce... I met a nice, 24 year old, and we began dating.

She was a great person, but very much a SJW. She had no compunction about making outrageous demands about my personal speech patterns.

Two incidents that stuck out:

I have a cousin who has FAS or is autistic, or both. He texts me 20x a day at least, and I happened to mention it and say my cousin was "retarded". She lit me up saying I should know better than to use that word-- and I explained to her that was the clinical term for people such as him. Was not meant as an insult.

Another time, I made a joke by answering a question she had in a pseudo-gay accent-- a lateral-lisp. She lit me up again for making fun of gay people-- which I was not doing at all. And I explained to her that I went to speech therapy for YEARS to get rid of that exact lisp and it was something that I owned because I was born with it, as opposed to folks who adopted it to indicate group membership.

We didn't last long as a couple :-)