Posted on 06/24/2021 12:45:59 PM PDT by DFG
A liberal arts college in Massachusetts has warned its students and faculty against using 'violent language' - even banning the phrase 'trigger warning' for its association with guns.
Brandeis University in Waltham has created an anti-violence resource called the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center which provides information and advice to students and staff.
It lists words and idioms, including 'picnic' and 'rule of thumb,' which it claims are 'violent' and suggests dreary alternatives such as 'outdoor eating' for the former and 'general rule' for the latter.
The college claims that 'picnic is often associated with lynchings of black people in the United States, during which white spectators were said to have watched while eating, referring to them as picnics or other terms involving racial slurs against black people.'
Picnic is derived from the French 'pique-nique,' originally used to describe the taking of one's own wine to a meal, which later evolved to encompass the sharing of food outdoors and started being used in England in the 18th century.
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A pick-a-nick!
Yeah and “gay” used to mean happy.
Dang, there are some disturbed people in academia. And, in other places, but the academics have so much time on their hands.
That one made me laugh the loudest.
How do they feel about “the money shot”, or “shake your money maker”?
The “rule of thumb” reference has been proven to be false.
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!
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.
These people are crazy. Err.. sorry, I meant bananas. Lol
Pretty much limited to saying “F.U.” in response to anything.
BRANDEIS. (brandys)
Picnic? Will our society ever escape from this insanity?
Get your degree from “Idiocracy” University.
How come every sentence doesn’t start with comrade? Like, “comrade housing insecurity person, why did you take a cr*p in the street?”
Yeah. We know exactly when and by whom that false etymology for ‘picnic’ was created.
>>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”.
get your kids out of these indoctrination factories
Someone send Yogi and Boo Boo the memo on the name change, picnic baskets are now outdoor eating baskets.
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.
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