From that Brandeis University Big Book of Oppressive Language.
Using the term "trigger warning" is not warranted as it is rooted in the language of guns.
That is interesting to know and a fact I can consider if I consciously opt to use the phrase. Which is what the Brandeis document is for. Good job Brandeis!
Some of it was useful, like the misappropriation of "spirit animal, " which really does trivialize and misrepresent a sacred experience of indigenous people. But the recommendation on not saying "rule of thumb, " and some others, struck me as a little goofy. And using violent phrases equivalent to "you did a good job! " does not strike me as an endorsement of murder or mayhem.
Just saying, people can bring an overly earnest attitude to this stuff. And anyone who disagrees should be taken out and shot!
I thought it was written by The Onion.
I thought the sophomoric attempt by pretentious woke shits to neuter language that people understand is offensive.
Oops can I say neuter?
That might be too violent, and perhaps too male-oriented identity-based language and might trigger emotional distress to the recipient of the message.
According to the Protocols of the Woke students of Brandeis, using the term African-American isn't cool, because not all A-As are/were from Africa, ok, but Brandeis's approved alternative of "Black" seems to dismiss those who are of mixed color and not Black, but rather, brown, tan, mocha-color, or high-yellow. So "People of color" would seem to be a fine alternative, right?
Nope!
That's oppressive too.
Go figure
But you gotta be a Chinese kid from MIT, with a fucking super-computer, or abacus, to play with all the words, definitions, iterations, and origins and then compute the potential meanings and who might take something the wrong way, in a way it was not intended, to fucking figure this shit out.
Or you could let people speak what's on their mind in the way they want to communicate, with their chosen words, and listen to them and hear their message and then you do the same thing. And you might tell them in response their use of "you fucking retard" my not be appropriate, and perhaps, "you dumb fuck" might be a better choice.
If you're hurt by the someone's use of a word, I'd say all things considered, that not so terrible a price to pay, considering the most extreme alternatives of ignorance, of just going back to grunting and bashing the brains in of a member of a different tribe.
I hope the fucking Brandeis retards are woke enough to understand and accept they will be mocked for their list.
I suspect I will too.
BFD
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