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"Trigger" is being canceled because it triggers

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 7/3/2021 11:18:33 AM

In the theater of the absurd that passes for wokery, they ban words and phrases that purportedly trigger unpleasant emotions in the audience. These include: “Mumbo jumbo” because it’s a corruption of the name of the African god Maamajomboo. Who knew? “The most qualified person should get the job” because it triggers feelings of inferiority in persons who are not the most qualified. “Peanut gallery” because it triggers memories of the old days when black people sat there and ate peanuts. Don’t use that phrase, especially around a black person because the painful memories may reduce him (er, I mean them – see below) to tears. “Cannibal” because it triggers the Carib tribe

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Hmm. What about "hair trigger"?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 7/3/2021 11:38:24 AM (No. 834629)
They try so hard to cancel stuff, but it won't work. The use of certain words fade away on their own. I can't recall the last time I heard anyone use the word trigger that wasn't used in the context of using guns. As for Mumbo Jumbo. Nobody says this anymore who isn't over the age of 70. It's like saying far out. Peanut Gallery was used for the Howdy Doodie show back in the 50's and early 60's. It was used to describe the kids sitting in the audience. It's another phase that few people use anymore. I don't recall ever hearing it being used to describe black people eating peanuts. Besides, what's wrong with eating peanuts? Millions of people eat peanuts at baseball games.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: TJ54 7/3/2021 11:42:05 AM (No. 834635)
Remember the 1970s phrase: right on?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: privateer 7/3/2021 11:43:28 AM (No. 834640)
How about 'white'. I find that insulting. Copy paper is white, I'm not. I prefer to identify as 'melanemic'.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: AGGW 7/3/2021 11:46:05 AM (No. 834645)
I resent people hijacking words and symbols (like God's rainbow) and will not comply.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JrSample 7/3/2021 11:47:58 AM (No. 834646)
Meanwhile the dropout rate for blacks is higher than any other demographic group, the out of wedlock birth rate for blacks is higher than whites and hispanics combined, 50 percent of violent crime is committed by young black males, they have the highest homicide rate, disproportionately involved in the use and trade in illegal narcotics, and make up over half of the murderers and homicide victims... but never mind all that, just don't use certain words around them or it might hurt their feelings.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Blackbird 7/3/2021 11:48:59 AM (No. 834648)
Wouldn’t want to offend the cannibal community. That might be considered insensitive.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna 7/3/2021 11:49:57 AM (No. 834651)
Sux to spend much of one's life learning to be nice and assume that others mean well and deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt...... only to have a cultural change take place wherein one must assume that others will read evil intentions into every word and gesture......and one must anticipate this ever changing minefield nightmare. Crazy Making!!! The innocent are being driven to madness or indifference to others. What virtuous polity would employ this gambit? None except Marxism.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: paral04 7/3/2021 12:52:36 PM (No. 834704)
Are all the Blacks in this country over 160 years old that they remember eating peanuts?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: snakeoil 7/3/2021 1:07:25 PM (No. 834722)
Miss the good old days when Roy Rodgers' horse was named Trigger. Back then HLM (Horse Lives Matter). Today if you called a young woman attending college a "coed" the Squat Squad would have you on the ground in 5 seconds. Somewhere The Left is making all these new rules. And the only time you know you've broken one is when you are called on the carpet.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: columba 7/3/2021 1:40:41 PM (No. 834753)
Former fans of Roy and Dale are offended.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NYbob 7/3/2021 2:30:05 PM (No. 834785)
Hope they don't find out about Roy's dog. I'm kind of surprised more dogs aren't named Bullet.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/3/2021 3:04:03 PM (No. 834811)
It also gives Lefties the creeps...they all know at some point the trigger is the operative item.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Maggie2u 7/3/2021 3:29:41 PM (No. 834843)
A week ago I read the word 'picnic' was banned because when a black was being lynched, White people sat on the ground watching and eating a meal. No kidding.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Tanker76 7/3/2021 4:06:05 PM (No. 834864)
I think I'll use whatever words I please, in whatever manner I please, thank you very much !
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Reply 15 - Posted by: downnout 7/3/2021 5:28:58 PM (No. 834919)
I have had it up to my eyeballs with these snowflakes. I almost hope someone comes after me for triggering them so I can give them the tongue lashing they deserve.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: 3XALADY 7/3/2021 6:32:23 PM (No. 834956)
Bullet, Bullet, Bullet, Bullet, Bullet THE DOG. See, it doesn't hurt to use the word. But I'm white. I would suspect a black would think of another bullet.
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