Offend the PC and Woke with gusto. Go out of your way to offend them.
When they tell you they’re offended smile warmly and say “You’re welcome!”
>>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”.
At this point might be easier to name the few words that can still be spoken there.
Ha! I called it on trigger warning.
This is an impossible task. It is impossible to know what comment a person might make that could cause an emotional reaction in another.
For example they want us to use the word “rape” instead of “non-consensual sex”, but I know people who cringe when they hear the word rape. It’s nobody’s but the rapists’ fault but it is a trigger word for some. You can’t blame well meaning people who didn’t know and meant no offense. But personally I try to avoid using that word because it recalls a traumatic experience for some people. So IMO I think these ideas are not really helpful at all. They are just words and phrases commonly used and for the most part people who use them don’t mean any harm. What is needed is just a little more empathy and a lot less less authoritarianism and senses of entitlement. All this sort of language manipulation does is create more acrimony and grudges and division.
This usage of the phrase can be traced back to the seventeenth century and has been associated with various trades where quantities were measured by comparison to the width or length of a thumb.
Typical ignorant liberal colleges.
When, when, I beg of the WORLD, will the Sun come out to melt this snowflake existential traumatic view of life? Think of the effort put in by Brandeis Administration, Staff and Faculty to create this NewSpeak transposition dictionary! Ah, such quality work they have produced here that I may barf!
On the other hand I can pray that this was produced by a sophomore drinking session and then slipped under the door of the dean of student life as a prank that has gone wrong. On the second thought, I don’t think that there are sophomores anymores!
These people are insane.
How can you ban so called “Trigger Words” if you cannot say the word trigger?
What a load of crap.
Our colleges and Universities became stupid because the boomer generation hit colleges en masse and caused colleges to hire lots of people who were not smart enough or qualified to be professors... then to make matters worse radical boomers from the 60's moved into teaching slots and we had the dumbing down of higher education.
The demographic solution is for parents to stop sending their kids to education institutions skating on decades old reputations.
That list is the most stunning example of passive/aggressiveness that I have ever seen.
The left excels at being useless.
OK well our Creighton basketball coach got into a HUGE amount of trouble several months ago for saying, IIRC, something about staying on the plantation. ?? I don’t see that listed as being an offensive phrase, but he almost lost his job over it and probably had to undergo lots of diversity training.
I also see that we are not allowed to say “everything going on right now”, unless we refer to the specific victim situations that we have subjected some oppressed person or group to endure.....
And we can’t even say that this is all crazy!!
Sorry i dont follow marxist identity politics rules. I’m not a sociopath.
How about we just yodel through an auto-tune, and call it music.
We’re I there I would use every single one of the words and phrases every single day and dare them to do anything about it.
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The worst thing is that somebody was PAID GOOD MONEY (which is probably a racist term since slaves were once bought with money) to create and propagate this idiocy.