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    College students are told they can't say 'you guys' ...its microaggressive

    -Freshmen at a college orientation event have been told not to address other students with the phrase 'you guys' because it could be interpreted as excluding women.

    Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, has hired a chief diversity officer, Sheree Marlowe, who has directed students on how to avoid subtle insults known as 'microaggressions'.

    The trained lawyer who is 'committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education' recently told freshmen at Clark they should avoid asking a black student if he plays basketball.

    They should also not badger an Asian student they don't know for help with their math homework, The New York Times reports.

    The term 'microaggression', coined by Columbia professor Derald Sue, refers to the 'brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities' that 'communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color'.

    One example of a 'microaggression', that Marlow presented to an audience of around 525 first-year students at Clark, was to imagine what it feels like to see their race or gender not represented on a 'wall of fame'.

    'On your first day of class, you enter the chemistry building and all of the pictures on the wall are scientists who are white and male. If you're a female, or you just don't identify as a white male, that space automatically shows that you're not represented,' she said...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...help-math.html

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    It was the women at work you said 'you guys' to everyone male and female.

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    Seriously, people are just getting stupider. And it seems like it comes from the supposedly "educated."

    Who DOESN'T say, "You guys?"

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    Us guys don't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Us guys don't.
    ah, ya, well, youz guys over dare speaks a differn langwage.


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    Slutt med den derre tulleengelsken. Skriv orntli engelsk. Det er forøvrig helt korrekt, vi bruker ikke sånne uttrykk. "dere" er mer enn nok, man trenger ikke legge til hverken "folk" eller "fe" for å gjøre det forståelig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Slutt med den derre tulleengelsken. Skriv orntli engelsk. Det er forøvrig helt korrekt, vi bruker ikke sånne uttrykk. "dere" er mer enn nok, man trenger ikke legge til hverken "folk" eller "fe" for å gjøre det forståelig.
    Well, there's your problem, right there... You started with "Slutt" ....... not a nice word in English!!!



    Just kidding....

    Google translate says this of what you said:

    Stop the derre tulleengelsken . Write orntli English. Moreover, it is absolutely correct, we do not use that kind of expression . " You " is more than enough , you need not add neither "people " or " fairy " to make it understandable.

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    You fairies.....

    according to Google that is.

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