Curious question, what would be negative about spade? It's either a form of shovel or a card color? Fairly certain I am missing something here.

Edit: Because it is really fun, in a strange way, to go through the list: Isn't chief also used to address, e.g., a chief petty officer?

Edit 2: The list is just, well, strange. Ghetto for example, in the list it is mentioned as a non-white neighborhood. Historically, it was a jewish one. Let alone to speak about the Ghettos the Nazi's put in place. Karen, bad because it insults (?) people for their behaviour, this just stands out against all the other terms on list because of negative perception around what people are. Pretty lazy list, especially for an instituation like Stanford from which I would have expected better understanding of cultural and historic context...

Edit 3: No surpise, red team is on the list. But doesn't that come from military exercises, with red being the opfor? And blue being friendlies?

Edit 4: While some things are good advice, the majority of things on this list is just rediciulous edge cases. And, on top of that, some things are on the list because racists took it over, e.g. uppity. So basically, extremists, racists and whomever has to use a term for the rest of us normal people (also on the list for whatever reason) cannot use it anymore. That alone raises the question who is in charge of words here.