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Now 'trigger warning' is banned by Brandeis University along with the 'offensive' phrases 'picnic', 'rule of thumb' and 'take a shot at it'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/24/2021 | Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 06/24/2021 12:45:59 PM PDT by DFG

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To: DFG

A pick-a-nick!


81 posted on 06/24/2021 2:49:48 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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To: DFG

Yeah and “gay” used to mean happy.


82 posted on 06/24/2021 2:53:21 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: DFG

Dang, there are some disturbed people in academia. And, in other places, but the academics have so much time on their hands.


83 posted on 06/24/2021 3:12:43 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Political Correctness kills!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
No, not “homeless”; “person experiencing housing insecurity.”

That one made me laugh the loudest.

84 posted on 06/24/2021 3:19:05 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: DFG

How do they feel about “the money shot”, or “shake your money maker”?


85 posted on 06/24/2021 3:22:10 PM PDT by skepsel
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To: DFG

The “rule of thumb” reference has been proven to be false.


86 posted on 06/24/2021 3:33:26 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: skimbell

Your comment on pique nique seemed too good to be true. So I checked it. (I do this often because the Internet abounds with authoritative falsehoods.) Thank you for a chuckle and an interesting bit of trivia!


87 posted on 06/24/2021 4:08:45 PM PDT by spaced
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To: DFG

Notice how their lists of banned words never include language that would be offensive to Christians or conservatives or whites. For example, they would never recommend that people avoid using Jesus or Christ or God as a curse word, which is extremely offensive to Christians. I could make a LONG list for them, but offending us is what they live for.


88 posted on 06/24/2021 4:46:24 PM PDT by Restless
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To: DFG

These people are crazy. Err.. sorry, I meant bananas. Lol


89 posted on 06/24/2021 6:12:20 PM PDT by dereknunley
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To: SaxxonWoods

Pretty much limited to saying “F.U.” in response to anything.

BRANDEIS. (brandys)


90 posted on 06/24/2021 6:22:32 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: DFG

Picnic? Will our society ever escape from this insanity?


91 posted on 06/24/2021 6:24:17 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: DFG

Get your degree from “Idiocracy” University.


92 posted on 06/24/2021 6:31:17 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. MI will never be a peaceful slave Socialist America.)
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To: DFG

How come every sentence doesn’t start with comrade? Like, “comrade housing insecurity person, why did you take a cr*p in the street?”


93 posted on 06/24/2021 7:28:57 PM PDT by DazedVet (Self esteem cannot be taught in school but comes from actual achievement.)
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To: DFG

Yeah. We know exactly when and by whom that false etymology for ‘picnic’ was created.


94 posted on 06/24/2021 9:59:07 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: a fool in paradise

>>The college claims that ‘picnic is often associated with lynchings of black people in the United States,

People also ate picnics while watching the Civil War being fought.

People also ate picnics to celebate Juneteenth.

No doubt all racists have drunk water in their lifetimes but it would be foolish to ban water consumption as “racist”.


And...you’ve fallen for it. It was a *wholly* fabricated etymology by an activist a few decades ago to create a narrative.


95 posted on 06/24/2021 10:00:43 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: a fool in paradise

get your kids out of these indoctrination factories


96 posted on 06/25/2021 3:52:47 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: DFG

Someone send Yogi and Boo Boo the memo on the name change, picnic baskets are now outdoor eating baskets.


97 posted on 06/25/2021 8:00:14 AM PDT by kalee
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To: skimbell

I was at a big family picnic and a large black family had a table near us. I was only 5. one of my great aunts referred to the kids as picaninnies. So I thought a picaninny was a little black kid at a picnic. It was many years before I learned the real meaning.


98 posted on 06/25/2021 3:04:43 PM PDT by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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