[Y3a]

I tried to find any scientific studies to back up the California Schools reasons for banning such words as "Yacht" etc. NOTHING DOING!!

There WERE NO STUDIES!!! Only un-scientific 'surveys' with NO DATA to examine!?!?

This crap is happening all over. The liberals and leftists are primarily responsible for this as they hold the reins in most colleges, where the studies originate.

No proof that identifying an "A+" student makes the class moron resentful. It was really about NOT comparing at all. No judgements. WHY? Perhaps because the lib's would come out at the bottom of the list.

[Spheric Harlot]

Okay.

This is something to do with boats and Californians, I gather, and lack of statistical evidence linking one to the other or a proletarian moron in some way or other.

That's about all the sense I can make of your post.



-s*

[Y3a]

The point is that many low level political types all over the US fall for the 'scientific proof' BS because they aren't that smart or saavy. We get stupid rules, laws, guidelines etc, based on political opinions instead of facts.
don't reward the acheivers, but protect the loosers at the bottom of the class?

Yacht - being banned in schools in CA is funny. The San Deigo Yacht club has had yachts in Americas Cup competitions for decades.

Oh, lets not have pride in this since the poor illegal alien kid may be resentful?

[Spheric Harlot]

*sigh*

whatareyouonabout?

LINK, PLEASE.

-s*

[Millennium]

I agree that political correctness is way, way out of hand. But could you kindly provide a link to this? What exactly did they claim was wrong with the word "yacht" anyway?

[BRussell]

Originally posted by Millennium:
I agree that political correctness is way, way out of hand. But could you kindly provide a link to this? What exactly did they claim was wrong with the word "yacht" anyway?

Millennium, could you please refraining from using the 'Y' word. I'd like MacNN to put it on the censor filter, so we don't offend people further.

[Y3a]

Heres the list:

Courtesy of Davey Porter, here is the list to be used by writers, editors and illustrators when preparing textbooks for K-12 students in California.



Adam and Eve (replace with 'Eve and Adam' to demonstrate that males do not take priority over females)
Blind, the (banned as offensive; replace with 'people who are blind')
Blind leading the blind (banned as handicapism)
Bookworm (banned as offensive; replace with 'intellectual')
Boys' night out (banned as sexist)
Busybody (banned as sexist; demeaning to older women)
Cassandra (banned as sexist)
Chief Sitting Bull (banned as relic of colonialism; replace with 'Tatanka Iyotake')
Confined to a wheelchair (banned as offensive; replace with 'person who is mobility impared')
Courageous (banned as patronizing when referring to a person with disabilities)
Craftsmanship (banned as sexist)
Cult (banned as ethnocentric when referring to a religious group)
Deaf, the (banned as offensive; replace with 'people who are deaf' or 'a person with a loss of hearing')
Devil (banned)
Dialect (banned as ethnocentric; use sparingly)
Differently abled (banned as offensive; replace with 'person who has a physical disability')
Dogma (banned as ethnocentric; replace with 'doctrine' or 'belief')
Drunken, Drunkeness (banned as offensive when referring to Native Americans)
Duffer (banned as demeaning to old men)
East, Eastern (banned as Eurocentric)
Egghead (banned as offensive; replace with 'intellectual')
Elderly, the (banned as ageist; replace with 'older people')
Extremist (banned as ethnocentric; replace with 'believer', 'follower', or 'adherent')
Fairy (banned because it suggests homosexuality; replace with 'elf')
Fanatic (banned as ethnocentric; replace with 'believer', 'follower', or 'adherent')
Founding Fathers, the (banned as sexist; replace with 'the founders' or 'the framers')
Fraternize (banned as sexist)
God (banned)
Heiress (banned as sexist; replace with 'heir')
Hell (banned; replace with 'heck' or 'darn')
Heretic (use with caution when comparing religions)
Heroine (banned as sexist; replace with 'hero')
Huts (banned as ethnocentric; replace with 'small houses')
Insane (banned as offensive; replace with 'person who has an emotional disorder or psychiatric illness')
Inspirational (banned as patronizing when referring to a person with disabilities)
Jungle (banned; replace with 'rain forest')
Junk bonds (banned as elitist)
Lame (banned as offensive; replace with 'walks with a cane')
Limping along (banned as handicapism)
Little person (banned as offensive; replace with 'person of small stature')
Lumberjack (banned as sexist; replace with 'woodcutter')
Majority group (banned as offensive)
Man of war (banned as sexist; replace with 'warship')
Mentally ill, the (banned as offensive; replace with 'person with a mental or emotional disability')
Middle East (banned as reflecting a Eurocentric world view; replace with 'Southwest Asia'; may be acceptable, however, as a historical reference)
Minority group (banned as offensive)
Mother Russia (banned as sexist; replace with 'Russia, vast land of rich harvests')
Navajo (banned as inauthentic; replace with 'Diné')
Old (banned as an adjective that implies helplessness, dependency, or other negative qualities)
Old wives' tale (banned as sexist; replace with 'folk wisdom')
Ombudsman (banned as sexist)
One-man band (banned as sexist; replace with 'one-person performance')
Pagan (banned as ethnocentric when referring to religion; replace with 'non-believer')
Paraplegic (banned as offensive; replace with 'person with paraplegia')
Past one's prime (banned as demeaning to older persons)
Pollyana (banned as sexist)
Polo (banned as elitist)
Regatta (banned as elitist)
Roving the land (banned as reference to Native Americans)
Satan (banned)
Sect (banned as ethnocentric when referring to a religious group, unless separated from an established religion)
Senile (banned as demeaning to older person)
Senior citizen (banned as demeaning to older person)
Slave (replace whenever possible with 'enslaved person')
Snowman (banned; replace with 'snow person')
Soul food (banned as regional or ethnic bias)
Stickball (banned as regional or ethnic bias)
Straw man (banned as sexist; replace with 'unreal issue' or 'misrepresentation')
Subgroup (banned as offensive reference to cultural differences)
Sufferer of cerebral palsy (banned as offensive; replace with 'person who has lost muscle control')
Suffragette (banned as sexist; replace with 'suffragist')
Tomboy (banned as sexist)
Turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism)
West, Western (banned as Eurocentric)
Yacht (banned as elitist)



STEREOTYPED IMAGES TO AVOID IN TEXT, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND READING PASSAGES IN TESTS:



Girls and Women/Boys and Men: Images to avoid . . .



o Women portrayed as teachers, mothers, nurses, and/or secretaries
o Women of achievement who are domineering or aggressive
o Women aging less gracefully than men
o Women as more nurturing than men
o Men as active problem solvers
o Men playing sports, working with tools
o Men and boys larger and heavier than women and girls
o Father expressionless or relaxed in trying circumstances
o Females more preoccupied with their appearance than males
o Pioneer woman riding in covered wagon while man walks
o Women as passengers on a sailboat or sipping hot chocolate in a ski lodge
o Girls as peaceful, emotional, warm
o Boys as strong, rough, competitive
o Boys as intelligent, logical, mechanical
o Boys as good at math and science



People of color: Images to avoid . . .



o People of color as being angry
o People of color as politically liberal



African-American people: Images to avoid:



o African-Americans who have white features or all look alike
o African-Americans in crowded tenements on chaotic streets; in big, bright cars; in abandoned buildings with broken windows and wash hanging out; or living in innocuous, dull white-picket-fence neighborhoods
o African-Americans who are baggage handlers



Native-American people: Images to avoid . . .



o Native Americans performing a rain dance
o Native Americans who are not part of the American mainstream
o Native Americans living in rural settings on reservations
o Native Americans with long hair, braids, headbands
o Native Americans portrayed as people who live in harmony with nature



Asian-American people: Images to avoid



o Asian-Americans as very intelligent, excellent scholars
o Asian-Americans as ambitious, hardworking, and competitive
o Asian-Americans as having strong family ties
o Chinese people who have great food
o Korean-Americans owning or working in fruit markets



Hispanic-American people: Images to avoid



o Hispanics who are migrant workers
o Hispanics who are warm, expressive, and emotional
o Hispanics in urban settings (ghettos or barrios)
o Hispanics wearing bright colors, older women in black, girls always in dresses
o Mexicans grinding corn



Persons who are older: Images to avoid



o Older people in nursing homes or with canes, walkers, wheelchairs, orthopaedic shoes, or eyeglasses
o Older people as ill, physically weak, feeble or dependent
o Older people as funny, absentminded, fussy, or charming
o Older people who have twinkles in their eyes, need afternoon naps, lose their hearing or sight, suffer aches and pains
o Older people who are retired, are at the end of their careers, have lived the most fruitful years of their lives, or are engaged in a life of leisure activities
o Older people living with their offspring or with other relatives
o Older people who are fishing, baking, knitting, whittling, reminiscing, rocking in chairs, or watching television



[Mary: If you think you're safe from this garbage because you don't live in California, you'd better think twice. California and Texas drive the standards for textbooks used in the ENTIRE country. This IS coming to a textbook near YOU! This should be fair warning that you do NOT want to be using public school programs and their textbooks. There was quite a bit of humorous discussion on our Main Message Board about this list, and the consensus seemed to be that schools should just give the students blank books and let the students write the history.]

[kvm_mkdb]

Originally posted by Y3a:
Heres the list:
[snip]

Doesn't surprise me a bit - you won't find pictures as this one in public school programs and their textbooks either:

[eklipse]

Now that's just ****ing stupid! (banned, probably, for being accurate; replace with 'the proposition is unfavorable')

[Shaddim]

Pagan (banned as ethnocentric when referring to religion; replace with 'non-believer')

So, they think Pagans are Atheists? I'm sure Rooney and Catsank would find that humorous.

I'm not surprised by the list. We're such a pathetic excuse for a society, an entire culture of worthless pu**ies.

[Lerkfish]

FWIW, although I bristle at the anal retentive nature of the list, it IS a guideline for textbooks, which is different than fictional books or other literature.
Although extremely ham-fisted and paranoid, the underlying intent is not a bad one...to prevent textbooks from promoting stereotyping or prejudicial speech.

I just think they went overboard...really overboard with the implementation of the intent.

I am slightly bemused, though, out of that whole list "yacht" is the one that incenses the originator of the thread.

[Y3a]

<< I am slightly bemused, though, out of that whole list "yacht" is the one that incenses the originator of the thread. >>

I am an Americas Cup fan, and even race RC models of Australia II(KA-6) and Black Magic (NZL-32).

The San Deigo Yacht Club (IN California) had competed and won the cup, and it should be a point of pride for all those in Ca, except the San Francisco yacht Club, who have competed but not won a cup for the US.

I guess it IS elitist to understand sailing, and be able to appreciate the design of the yacht, the tactics and the long term plan to win the cup.

I guess in CA you're supposed to be stupid?

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by Y3a:
<< I am slightly bemused, though, out of that whole list "yacht" is the one that incenses the originator of the thread. >>

I am an Americas Cup fan, and even race RC models of Australia II(KA-6) and Black Magic (NZL-32).

The San Deigo Yacht Club (IN California) had competed and won the cup, and it should be a point of pride for all those in Ca, except the San Francisco yacht Club, who have competed but not won a cup for the US.

I guess it IS elitist to understand sailing, and be able to appreciate the design of the yacht, the tactics and the long term plan to win the cup.

I guess in CA you're supposed to be stupid?

I don't understand your last statement at all. ?Relevance?

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by Lerkfish:
I am slightly bemused, though, out of that whole list "yacht" is the one that incenses the originator of the thread.

Well, you're just confirming the accuracy of identifying "yacht" as "elitist".



-s*