Category: PC
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As offensive as the word itself
Saying they want to publish a version that won’t be banned from some schools because of its language, two scholars are editing Mark Twain‘s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to eliminate uses of the “N” word and replace it with “slave,” Publishers Weekly writes. The edition, from NewSouth Books, will also shorten an offensive reference…
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Are you a heterosexist?
The acronym is bigger than I thought — and even more ridiculous. The latest, all-inclusive version: Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex Queer Questioning Asexual Ally The University of Wisconsin-LaCross Pride Center site also features a glossary of “non-heteronormative” PC inanities: Berdache: A generic term used to refer to a third gender person (woman-livingman). The term…
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Cincinnati: Home of the country’s five most humorless turds
The Cincinnati Health Department will conduct an inspection of the Great American Ball Park and the Reds’ clubhouse after at least five people called a state hotline, complaining that when Reds players lighted up celebratory cigars after they clinched the NL Central, they violated Ohio’s smoking ban.
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The H.R. Pufnstuf Award for Incomprehensible Foolishness
Beyond absurd: To protest the oil spill, the Brevard County Manatees will now have ‘hitting rehearsal’ instead of BP, shorthand for batting practice.
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is it dangerous to lampoon the president?
Of course not. It is dangerous to suggest we shouldn’t. “Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” says Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.” “We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used…
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no quarter
Let’s keep this simple for the let’s keep this simple crowd. A bunch of partisan scolds are excoriating a highbrow publication for having the temerity to appeal to wannabe highbrows: “Dumb it down, New Yorker. Maybe to uh, I don’t know, Newsweek level. Thanks. It’s for their own good.” Americans are children, you see. As…
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