Jan 6, 2023
From the Tom Woods Letter: You may recall Stanford University as the place that made the life of Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine, rather difficult, because he committed the unforgivable crime of being right about lockdowns and the rest of the madness. Well, the place is apparently worse than you thought. Something called the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative recently proposed eliminating a substantial number of words and terms from the campus vocabulary. These words are oppressive and offensive. Not to normal people, whose sensitivities are never taken into account, but to the emotional hypochondriacs who relish playing the victim role. So: From now on a "blind study" should be called a "masked study," because the original term "unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture." Is this a joke? I can assure you that if I were blind, I would absolutely be describing my condition as a