In the latest move by a U.S. government agency to appease leftists,
the State Department is quietly overhauling language used in agency
materials that may be considered exclusionary or offensive.
Judicial
Watch obtained a copy of a memo from a State Department source asking
the agency’s 69,000 employees to report “outdated and non-inclusive
language in Department of State policies, documents or webpages.” The
directive was issued this month by the State Department’s Office of
Civil Rights (S/OCR) and it provides an “outdated form submission” for
employees to note specific examples of what amounts to politically
incorrect language that is to be “updated.”
The S/OCR offers several examples to guide employees through the
process of reporting policies, documents and web pages that do not use
“inclusive” language. This includes obsolete racial terms or language
that implies “preference for the traditional nuclear family structure
and stereotypical gender roles,” according to the document. Other
examples include using the outdated phrase “handicapping condition”
rather than the contemporary word “disability.” The widely distributed
memo ends by encouraging employees to participate in a process that can
easily be compared to Marxist language manipulation. “If you are aware
of policies or documents containing outdated language or instances where
language could be more inclusive S/OCR would welcome you completing the
form at the link below with the relevant outdated language information
for our office’s follow-up.”