Posted on 07/29/2015 11:34:01 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
The University of New Hampshire has issued a Bias-Free Language Guide which identifies the word “American” as a “problematic” term which should not be used.
Other “problematic” words on the taxpayer-funded school’s lengthy list include “mothering,” “fathering,” “healthy,” “homosexual,” “rich,” “poor” and “senior citizen,” notes Campus Reform.
The goal of the politically-correct UNH Bias-Free Language Guide is “to invite inclusive excellence” on the public campus.
The guide’s broad and extensive, 4,812-word attempt to police language includes an introductory quote by Melissa Harris-Perry and covers virtually every nook and cranny of radical leftist identity politics imaginable.
The word “American” is “problematic,” according to the University of New Hampshire, because it “assumes the U.S. is the only country inside” land masses — North America, South America and Central America — with the word “America” in their names.
The UNH language guide decrees that language users should say “U.S. citizen” or “resident of the U.S.” instead.
For skin color, the taxpayer-funded school in the Live-Free-or-Die state instructs speakers to say “European-American individuals” instead of “Caucasian.”
Also, employees at the University of New Hampshire present as passive-voice fact the notion that the concept of race “was designed to maintain slavery.”
The words “mothering” and “fathering” are verboten because speakers must “avoid gendering a non-gendered activity.”
The word “black” for black people is okay, though.
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I find those words PROBLEMATIC.
It’s really difficult to be ‘inclusive’ when you are excluding so much.
Maybe we can just grunt at each other.
Probably doesn’t like the word “citizen” either.
“Live Free or Die”
Guess they chose “Die.”
Too much staff on this college payroll. It would be more productive if they just sat around and watched porn on the college Internet. This list is both stupid and no sensical. And it sets a truly awful example for the students insofar as work performance is concerned. Fire them all. This will correct their bad example
Wonder what they think of wetback, faggot, and poofter?
The people who wrote this guide are giving idiocy a bad name.
The same people who encourage such a guide will claim stoutly that they favor “free speech.”
Morons.
That would be considered too “masculine” and therefore paternalistic and misogynist.
This is exactly why the Dept. Of Education should be eliminated.
That tired old complaint about the term “American” is so bogus. Show me another country with the name America in it and we’ll talk.
Technically, I do have a problem with the use of the word “American” to address a U. S. Citizen.
Who is a European? Anyone living on the European Continent... Who is an Asian? Anyone living on the Asian Continent...
So who is an American? Technically it’s anyone living in North, Central, or South America. They are all Americans.
Yes, I know, American has been used to refer to us for many years. Where this breaks down is the following situation.
We are seeing a concerted effort to destroy our border with Mexico. We are seeing businesses create an economic zone with the U. S., Canada, and Mexico. T-Mobile now offers service in this “UNION” as if it were one nation.
This is going to accelerate. The goal is to create a North American Union. It is being implemented as we speak, all the while our leaders lie about it. “What? We’re not doing that. That’s crazy talk.” No, it isn’t...
So as this is accomplished, what real meaning does the word American begin to morph into? All of a sudden, it references people living in the North American Union.
Ah, no thanks. I’m a U. S. Citizen. I’m an American, but so is everyone from Canada to the bottom of Chile.
Bellyfeel
The word bellyfeel means a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea.
The word likely comes from the idea that any good Oceanian should be able to internalize Party doctrine to the extent that it becomes a gut instinct – a feeling in the belly.
“ Consider, for example, such a typical sentence from a Times leading article as “Oldthinkers unbellyfeel Ingsoc.” The shortest rendering one could make of this in Oldspeak would be: “Those whose ideas were formed before the Revolution cannot have a full emotional understanding of the principles of English Socialism.” But this is not an adequate translation. ... Only a person thoroughly grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word bellyfeel, which implied a blind, enthusiastic, and casual acceptance difficult to imagine today. ”
—Orwell, 1984 Appendix
Compare to truthiness.
Blackwhite
Blackwhite is defined as follows:
“ ...this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. ”
—Orwell, 1984
The word is an example of both Newspeak and doublethink. It represents the active process of rewriting the past, control of the past being a vital aspect of the Party's control over the present.
The ability to blindly believe anything, regardless of its absurdity, can have different causes: respect for authority, fear, indoctrination, even critical laziness or gullibility. Orwell's blackwhite refers only to that caused by fear, indoctrination, or repression of one’s individual critical thinking (”to know black is white”), rather than caused by laziness or gullibility. A true Party member could automatically, and without thought, expunge any “incorrect” information and totally replace it with “true” information from the Party. If properly done, there is no memory or recovery of the “incorrect” information that could cause unhappiness to the Party member by committing thoughtcrime. This ability is likened to the total erasure of information only possible in electronic storage.
[edit] See also
* Cognitive dissonance
Crimethink
Crimethink is the Newspeak word for thoughtcrime (thoughts that are unorthodox, or are outside the official government platform), as well as the verb meaning “to commit thoughtcrime”. Goodthink, which is approved by the Party, is the opposite of crimethink.
In the book, Winston Smith, the main character, writes in his diary:
“ Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. ”
—Orwell, 1984
Duckspeak
Duckspeak is a Newspeak term meaning literally to quack like a duck or to speak without thinking. Duckspeak can be either good or “ungood” (bad), depending on who is speaking, and whether what they are saying is in following with the ideals of Big Brother. To speak rubbish and lies may be ungood, but to speak rubbish and lies for the good of “The Party” may be good. In the appendix to 1984, Orwell explains:
“ Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak […]. Like various words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment. ”
—Orwell, 1984
An example of a skillful duckspeaker in action is provided in the beginning of chapter 9, in which an Inner Party speaker is haranguing the crowd about the crimes of Eurasia when a note is passed into his hand; he does not stop speaking for a moment, or change his voice or manner, but (according to the changed party line) he now condemns the crimes of Eastasia, which is Oceania's new enemy.
See also
* Thought-terminating cliché
Goodsex and sexcrime
Goodsex is any form of sex considered acceptable by the Party; specifically, this refers only to married heterosexual sex for the exclusive purpose of providing new children for the Party. All other forms of sex are considered sexcrime.
Ownlife
Ownlife refers to the tendency to enjoy being solitary, which is considered subversive. Winston Smith comments that even to go for a walk by oneself can be regarded as suspicious.
Prefixes
* “Un-” is a Newspeak prefix used for negation. It is used as a prefix to make the word negative, since there are no antonyms in Newspeak. Therefore, for example, warm becomes uncold. It is often decided to keep the word which has a more unpleasant nuance to it when choosing which one of the antonyms should be kept in the process of diminishing vocabulary. Therefore, cold is preferred to unwarm or unhot, and dark is preferred to unlight,[2] even though cold and darkness are not physical phenomena as opposed to light and heat. The Party's choice for the less pleasant versions of an antonym may be interpreted as another way the Party makes its subjects depressive and pessimistic to suppress unorthodox thought. On the other hand, the Party controls one’s ability to think negatively by sometimes allowing only the positive term preceded by “un-”. For example, the concept of “bad” can be expressed only with ungood. When placed before a verb, “un-” becomes a negative imperative; for example, unproceed means “do not proceed”. This is similar to the adding of “mal” for negation in Esperanto.
* “Plus-” is an intensifier, in place of “more” or the suffix “-er” (in some situations). Thus, great becomes plusgood.
* “Doubleplus-” further intensifies “plus-”, so doubleplusgood is used in place of excellent or best.
Suffixes
* “-ful” is a Newspeak suffix used to turn another word into an adjective. For example, rapid would be rendered as speedful.
* “-wise” is a Newspeak suffix used to turn another word into an adverb. For example, quickly would be rendered as speedwise. Therefore “He ran very quickly” would become “He runned plus-speedwise”.
* “-ed” is the only method to make a non-auxiliary verb past tense in the A-vocabulary. This decreases the number of words required to express tenses by removing irregular conjugations. Ran becomes runned, drank becomes drinked, etc.
Unperson
Before
After
A Soviet “nonperson” vanishes: commissar Nikolai Yezhov retouched after falling from favor and being executed in 1940.
An unperson is a person who has been “vaporized”; who has been not only killed by the state, but effectively erased from existence. Such a person would be written out of existing books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of their existence could be found in the historical record. The idea is that such a person would, according to the principles of doublethink, be forgotten completely (for it would be impossible to provide evidence of their existence), even by close friends and family members. Mentioning his or her name, or even speaking of their past existence, is thoughtcrime; the concept that the person may have existed at one time and has disappeared cannot be expressed in Newspeak. Compare to the Stalinist practice of erasing people from photographs after their execution (see photos, right).
The Stalin-era Soviet Union also provided real-world examples of unpersons in its treatment of Leon Trotsky and other members of the Communist party who became politically inconvenient. In his 1960 magazine article “Pravda means ‘Truth’”, reprinted in Expanded Universe, Robert A. Heinlein argued that a mysterious May 15, 1960 cosmonaut had also received this treatment.
See also
* Damnatio memoriae
* Extraordinary rendition
* Forced disappearance
* Historical revisionism
* Nonperson
Other Newspeak words
(Many of these are in fact merely part of the “abbreviated jargon — not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words — used in the Ministry for internal purposes”, described by Orwell in chapter 4.)
* africa
* ante~: A prefix used meaning “pre~” or “before”.
* artsem: Artificial insemination.
* bb: Big Brother.
* crimestop
* current
* dayorder: Order of the day.
* doublethink
* equal: Only in the sense of physically equal, like equal height/size, etc. It does not mean politically equal, since there is no such concept in Ingsoc.
* facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on their facial expression.
* file
* forecast
* free: meaning Negative freedom (without) in a physical sense, only in statements like “This dog is free from lice”, as the concepts of “political freedom” and “intellectual freedom” do not exist in Newspeak.
* full
* good: (Can also be used as a prefix vaguely meaning “orthodox”.)
* goodthink: Vaguely translatable to orthodox thought.
* ingsoc: English Socialism.
* issue: children produced by goodsex
* joycamp: forced labor camp
* malquoted: flaws or inaccurate presentations of Party or Big Brother-related matters by the press. See misprints below.
* miniluv: “Ministry of Love” (secret police, interrogation and torture)
* minipax: “Ministry of Peace” (Ministry of War, cf: ‘Department of Defense’ vs ‘War Department’)
* minitrue: “Ministry of Truth” (propaganda and altering history)
* miniplenty: “Ministry of Plenty” (keeping the population in a state of constant economic hardship)
* misprints: Errors or mispredictions which need to be rectified in order to prove that the Party is always right. See malquoted above.
* oldspeak: English; perhaps any language that is not Newspeak.
* oldthink: ideas inspired by events or memories of times prior to the Revolution.
* plus~: A prefix used in the sense of very, i.e., to give an adjective or an adverb a stronger meaning (e.g. plusgood means “very good”).
* pornosec: Subunit of the Fiction Department of the Ministry of Truth that produces pornography
* prolefeed: the steady stream of mindless entertainment to distract and occupy the masses
* recdep: “Records Department” (division of the Ministry of Truth that deals with the rectification of records; department in which Winston works)
* rectify: Used by the Ministry of Truth as a euphemism for the deliberate alteration of the past.
* ref: To refer (to).
* report
* sec: Sector.
* speakwrite: An instrument used by Party members to note or “write” down information by speaking into an apparatus as a faster alternative to an “ink pencil”. It is, for example, used in the Ministry of Truth by the protagonist Winston Smith.
* telescreen: television and security camera-like devices used by the ruling Party in Oceania to keep its subjects under constant surveillance
* thinkpol: The Thought Police
* upsub: submit to higher authority.
* verify
* yp (year plan)
Roscoe posted at http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=162852.0
American: ungood.
Socialist/Communist World Citizen: you get an A+, a Gold Star and a kiss from your transgendered U of NH professor!
Ah, no thanks. I’m a U. S. Citizen. I’m an American, but so is everyone from Canada to the bottom of Chile.
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Nope, they’re not. These are regions, not countries. As a previous poster said, “show me one other country that has America in its name.”
We are the United States of America, and have been for over two hundred years.
Ask Google for a map of America and see what you get. Just because you change the definition of something doesn’t make it so.
As Sheldon’s mother says, “Just because the cat has kittens in the oven, don’t make’m biscuits.”
Oh BTW, there’s American The Beautiful. It isn’t talking about Canada or Chile.
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