The university said the intent of the list is to eliminate many forms of harmful language on Stanford websites, but critics note that one of the words on their list is the word “American.”
Stanford University is under fire for creating a list of so-called"forbidden words."
Vietnam Veteran Louis Agront, senior of San Jose, says he’s stunned to hear Stanford put"American" on a harmful language list. “When you go to war and you are on the battlefield, you don't think 'I'm fighting for U.S citizens,' you say what is in your heart,” said Agront. “We are all Americans and should be proud of it.”Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
The university says its controversial word list is part of an initiative to eliminate harmful language, especially in internal communication among the school's IT community. In a statement, it said, “the intent of this particular entry on the EHLI website was to provide perspective on how the term may be imprecise in some specific uses, and to show that in some cases the alternate term 'U.S. citizen' may be more precise and appropriate.”
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