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To illustrate how easy it is to inject a racial angle into anything, here's Brandeis University on why "picnic" is oppressive language: https://www.brandeis.ed

To illustrate how easy it is to inject a racial angle into anything, here's Brandeis University on why "picnic" is oppressive language: https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelanguagelist_violent.html https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelangu... [edit] They just removed it. Here's what they had previously: https://archive.is/NR0Zj https://archive.is/NR0Zj

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
Lol, even the phrase "Trigger warning" is too triggering!
lallysingh 5y ago
Picnic's not on the list?
- bumbledraven 5y ago
  It’s in a snapshot from earlier today: https://archive.is/NR0Zj https://archive.is/NR0Zj > The term 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.
  - mattbk1 5y ago
    Snopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/
    - hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
      The "rule of thumb" etymology is also bullshit but it's still there: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-1998107056-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-19981070...
      - lallysingh 5y ago
        Reading that, it wasn't established last, but I didn't find any other definition for that term in the article. I'm pretty groggy, did I miss it?
        hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
        From the link: The false etymology persists despite the Oxford English Dictionary definition: "A method or procedure derived entirely from practice or experience, without any basis in scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method." The OED dates the phrase's first reference to 1692. In the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, "rule of thumb" is additionally defined as a method by which brewers once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They dipped a thumb in the brew.
- hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
  Wow, they literally must have just changed this, I looked like 30 mins ago and it was there.
  - astrange 5y ago
    This is why you should always wait a week before reacting to news stories, they usually take care of themselves.
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TurkishPoptart 5y ago
I can't believe this nonsense. This is Maoist at the core - it's requiring everything in our language and culture to be re-examined under a petty lens and for what? To appease people who could possibly complain about something? To me it sounds like cultural decay - when life is too good and consumer good are in abundance, petty people have to come up with new problems and dragons to slay to justify their $60,000 administrator salaries.

hn_throwaway_99 5y ago

Lol, even the phrase "Trigger warning" is too triggering!

lallysingh 5y ago

Picnic's not on the list?

bumbledraven 5y ago
It’s in a snapshot from earlier today: https://archive.is/NR0Zj https://archive.is/NR0Zj > The term 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.
- mattbk1 5y ago
  Snopes disagrees, maybe why they removed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picnic-origin/
  - hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
    The "rule of thumb" etymology is also bullshit but it's still there: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-1998107056-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-19981070...
    - lallysingh 5y ago
      Reading that, it wasn't established last, but I didn't find any other definition for that term in the article. I'm pretty groggy, did I miss it?
      - hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
        From the link: The false etymology persists despite the Oxford English Dictionary definition: "A method or procedure derived entirely from practice or experience, without any basis in scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method." The OED dates the phrase's first reference to 1692. In the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, "rule of thumb" is additionally defined as a method by which brewers once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They dipped a thumb in the brew.
hn_throwaway_99 5y ago
Wow, they literally must have just changed this, I looked like 30 mins ago and it was there.
- astrange 5y ago
  This is why you should always wait a week before reacting to news stories, they usually take care of themselves.

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TurkishPoptart 5y ago

I can't believe this nonsense. This is Maoist at the core - it's requiring everything in our language and culture to be re-examined under a petty lens and for what? To appease people who could possibly complain about something? To me it sounds like cultural decay - when life is too good and consumer good are in abundance, petty people have to come up with new problems and dragons to slay to justify their $60,000 administrator salaries.