Big Brother Is Watching You: Stanford’s New ‘Harmful Language’ Guide

Wow. Real solid good-intention paving bricks on the road to hell. For consistency, are the people who study taught by people who teach, or are students taught by teachers? I'm particularly struck by "addiction" -> "devotion", as that makes it sound holy. Etymologically, addiction (without say) seemed apt.

Hope this is accurate and not farce fobbed off on the ignorant. Then again, maybe I don't.

Policing language is giga-cringe

tbf, (TFA's author notwithstanding), although I agree the likelihood of offense for the first column is questionable in many cases, in a quick skim I didn't see any where replacement (not necessarily by the second column!) would have been at all objectionable, either.

tl;dr "Big Brother" seems far downslope for this concrete case. (And neither has its slipperiness been shown.)