Mizzou Pulls Its ‘Inclusive’ Speech Guide for Being Insufficiently Inclusive

Published June 27, 2016 6:15pm ET



Mapping out the micro-aggressions minefield may have seemed like a good move amidst the plague of protests at University of Missouri’s Columbia campus last fall. But they were bound to miss some: Sure enough Mizzou’s glossary of inclusive language has failed to meet its own standards for inclusion.

An instructive guide to diversity newspeak that was last updated on the school’s diversity homepage at the time of the November protests, “The Language of Identity: Using inclusive terminology at Mizzou,” had to be taken down over the weekend—because it wasn’t inclusive enough.

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