A story about a guide that seeks to avoid offending certain groups is stirring up political circles. I think the University of New Hampshire should add these terms...

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Another day has passed and it is time for the internet at large to raise their pitchforks over a new trending issue.

This time around it is a "Bias-Free Language Guide" that was created by a group of staff and students at the University of New Hampshire in 2013. Three years later it has been dug up by conservative news group Campus Reform to showcase the worst of political correctness.

Terms the guide deems problematic include “elders,” “senior citizen,” “overweight,” “speech impediment,” “dumb,” “sexual preference,” “manpower,” “freshmen,” “mailman,” “chairman,” “American,” “illegal alien,” “foreigners,” “mothering,” and “fathering.”

The guide is an incredibly stupid effort to be "inclusive" by forcing everyone to consider every single example of diversity before uttering a word. I am all for people being considerate of other people's feelings, but nobody should be forced to whip out a dictionary before speaking their mind.

The University's president has called the guide "offensive" and states that it is not university policy, according to the Associated Press.

Of course this is all just political theater and yet another story on the internet looking to fit a specific narrative (that people can argue about on Facebook.) The guide is obviously not official University policy, but I think there are terms that SHOULD be replaced with something a little more politically correct. These terms make me feel incredibly uncomfortable and should be changed to reflect the reality of their situation:

Fashionista

Preferred: A person who has little to no value without a pile of overpriced clothes covering their lack of a personality.

Social Media Expert

Preferred: Somebody who posts on Facebook occasionally and is looking for a way to bamboozle companies by pretending he/she understands the amorphus trash monster that is social media.

"Insert-Controversy-Here" Gate

Preferred: Any word or phrase that isn't just a defining word plus the word "gate." Seriously. Anything.

Hipster

Preferred: A person who thinks that the way to live life is to tout their individuality while looking and acting like millions of other idiots.

Sarcastic

Preferred: Being an asshole and covering it up by pretending it is humor.

Activist

Preferred: A self-involved individual who pretends to fight for social and political change in order to have something to put on their Twitter.

Patriot

Preferred: Keyboard warrior who thinks that reposting the American flag on Facebook and forwarding emails about Obama is the equivalent of fighting with our troops on the front lines.

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