Banned words from american text books.

[Squeeky]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/28/life.language.reut/index.html

All these words are banned from U.S. textbooks on the grounds that they either elitist (polo, yacht) sexist (babe, boyish figure), offensive (blind, bookworm) ageist (biddy) or just too strong (hell which is replaced with darn or heck). God is also a banned word in the textbooks because he or she is too religious.
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She says a lot of people are having fun finding new titles for Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" which presents problems with every word except "and" and "the." Ravitch said old is ageist, man is sexist and sea can't be used in case a student lives inland and doesn't grasp the concept of a large body of water.

Credit to TW for content

[AztecWarrior]

"You also can't say Mother Russia or Fatherland or brotherhood in texts and that's both silly, trivial and breathtaking. It is like George Orwell's 'Newspeak' come to life," she said in an interview, referring to the manipulation of language in "1984."

BIG BROTHER WATCHES!!!!! O_O

[Jaged]

It is stuff like that that realy gets under my skin. Land of the free my left testicle....

[AztecWarrior]

Let's read The Older Person and the Water.
:rofl:

[Incompetent]

Some days im ashamed to be human.

[mikkyT]

Ashamed to be American u mean, the rest of the world doesn't need a nanny.... well unless you happen to be the next small country threatening American pride :D

[Big Bro]

Originally posted by AztecWarrior
BIG BROTHER WATCHES!!!!! O_O

Yes I am!! :)

On topic... I'm pretty much against censorship. It interferes with my freedom of speech. I have the freedom to say pretty much what I want, and you have the freedom to choose whether to be "offended" by it or not. :p

[Seer]

Ladies and gentlemen, the American left! Aren't they fabulous, lets give them a round of applause for their latest attempt to excise Crimethink from our society. Keep tilting at those windmills, guys, and you'll never have to deal with real problems.

[Doobz]

i find this amusing

[ObnoxiousFrog]

You can't talk about peanuts without making a disclaimer that some people are allergic.

And you can't talk about owls becuase some Native Amercan tribes find them taboo.

I'm not lying...

[Led]

So this means I cannot call Hamma a dirty ol' bastard anymore? :(

[ObnoxiousFrog]

No, but person born out of wedlock with low hygenal awareness is OK.

[KeviN]

"The New York Times recently reported that National Institute of Health researchers on AIDS are not only avoiding using words like gay and homosexuals in e-mails so as not to offend conservatives in the Bush administration, they are also inventing code words."

Maybe I took that the wrong way, but that's just too funny!

[Dharkbayne]

Code F here, we got a Code F! Make sure no one breaks in the back door, if ya know what I mean- New code words

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Led
So this means I cannot call Hamma a dirty ol' bastard anymore? :( :love:

[Led]

:hitit:

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by Led
:hitit:


Led, I'd hit you....With a shovel :brow:

:rofl: Jk :love:

[AztecWarrior]

So then there is hittage betwen Squeeky and Led....let me call some tabloids...

[MrVulcan]

"publishers insist that they do not impose censorship on their history and English textbook authors but merely apply rules of sensitivity "

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

is it just me, or is this line quite funny :lol:

welcome to Free Speach, where you can burn flags, but cant say 'old man' :lol: :lol: :lol:

People are insane......

[AztecWarrior]

OMG our history books are fake!!!!!!!11

[MuadDib]

Note how most new histroy books will skip over the things America has done to the Native American but go into detail about the holocaust because Hitler was omgomg badguy!...........Jesus Christ I hate hypocrites

[mikkyT]

http://www.raceworx.com/funnypics/demo%20seal%20whine.jpg

[Dharkbayne]

mikkyT, if you don't stop with the pics, I am gonna ban you, oh yeah, I can't ban, nm :(

[MrVulcan]

Originally posted by {}Muad'Dib{}
Note how most new histroy books will skip over the things America has done to the Native American but go into detail about the holocaust because Hitler was omgomg badguy!...........Jesus Christ I hate hypocrites

Or the fact that we have taken over almost as many govs for democracy's sake as the USSR did for communism. Even though most of the time the county went from a safe, calm, real country to a destroied war zone after we were so kind and 'helped' them

[Robot]

you actually haven't been allowed to refer to, "the former soviet union" as, "russia" or, "the motherland" for some time now

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by mikkyT
http://www.raceworx.com/funnypics/demo%20seal%20whine.jpg

You are now my Hero.

[Dharkbayne]

Haha, democrats suck

[Doobz]

Just to let you know, our history books do not skip over what we have done to the Native Americans, but actually do list the atrocities, such as the Trail of Tears and other injustices.

Learn the facts before you post.

[UNEEDASSHOE]

ive gone through history books to many times to want to know what they say so they need to die or something like that

[Lise]

Yeah, evidently it can vary from region to region. I know the books I read used pretty much every word listed there.

However, I do disagree with the assertion that ALL Leftists believe in this sort of crap. A REAL Leftist believes in total free speech, even if that language is "offensive." Quoth Voltaire:

Originally said by Voltaire, 18th century French philosophe:
"I may not agree with what you say, but I will fight to the death to defend your right to say it."

Anyone with a brain knows that BOTH U.S. parties are kissing up to the special interest groups these days - this is just another example.

What's really scary is that there's no law stating the words are "banned" - the mere climate of our political system as it stands facilitates or even demands it. That's rather disturbing...

[Unregistered]

I fid the term Slave/Slaver offensive and want to see it replaced with "Unpaid Imigrant Boarder". The day the left will do that is the day we leave in a better world.

[UNEEDASSHOE]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I fid the term Slave/Slaver offensive and want to see it replaced with "Unpaid Imigrant Boarder". The day the left will do that is the day we leave in a better world.

MARS here we come