The City of San Diego is reworking its manual for employee communications after a section on “Bias-Free Language” sparked public ridicule because it instructed staff not to mention the country’s “Founding Fathers.”
The Pacific Justice Institute issued a letter to Dan Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Monday calling for the city to rescind recent guidelines restricting employee speech it considers gender biased. Examples in the document include words and phrases like “the common man,” “manmade,” “man up” and numerous others.
“As one example, the guidelines note that ‘founding fathers’ is also problematic and should be replaced with ‘founders,’” according to a PJI statement. “The city further urges employees preparing official reports to disregard or paraphrase research that contains such biased language.”...
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