This PC bullsxxx is going way too far

[Alex]

Never heard of that one in relation to that device, but I have heard it for the Tsar Bomba.

[Jim H]

why would you care if they kept the name the same? it's a bunch of stupid crap thought up by bored people in their covid quarantine

We're also bored in quarantine so we can freely complain about it.  Tit for tat.

[LilCerberus]

Seriously?
Nobody remembers dropping the MOAB?
And a couple of us brought up Moab?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab#Biblical_and_other_narratives/

[Rev. Powell]

Seriously?
Nobody remembers dropping the MOAB?
And a couple of us brought up Moab?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab#Biblical_and_other_narratives/

Huh?

"Sometime during the Persian period Moab disappears from the extant historical record. Its territory was subsequently overrun by waves of tribes from northern Arabia, including the Kedarites and (later) the Nabataeans."

Before my time.

[zombie no.one]

Master bedroom story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/what-should-you-call-a-master-bedroom/ar-BB166f2L#:~:text=The%20term%20master%20bedroom%20was%20first%20used%20to,include%20an%20attached%20bathroom%20and%20a%20large%20closet.

The term can imply that there is a master who oversees the household, typically a male, and from a historical perspective, as a master of slaves. This can potentially have gender and racial implications where there is a perceived exclusion of females or minorities. The term has slowly been falling to the wayside, but there has been a lot of political activity of late that would support shifting the term master bedroom to something more politically correct.

From The Motley Fool (a business news site) via MSN

I absolutely love how one of their alternative suggestions is OWNER'S BEDROOM, as if that couldn't possibly have any connotations with...erm...I dunno.. . slave owners?

all these people who seem hellbent on waging some PC war invariably end up shooting themselves in the foot like that.

[LilCerberus]

Some idiots want to rename your body part & internal organs
https://www.westernjournal.com/doctors-call-decolonize-language-stopping-use-misogynistic-names-body-parts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=teaparty&utm_campaign=lminetwork&utm_content=2020-07-25&fbclid=IwAR34n_SG-ok0XPi_ekedQrcib-mWLcrjlAQB0AdvYigk1yzsllo-5ZMfzuw

[zombie no.one]

I think eventually we won't have words, or signs, or even facial expressions (well at the moment our faces are covered anyway)...  all that we'll have is a little implant with a binary receptor that switches from 0 to 1 whenever we're in a 5 metre radius of another person, and then back to 0 when they move away. that will be the full extent of human interaction. everyone happy.

[chainsaw midget]

I absolutely love how one of their alternative suggestions is OWNER'S BEDROOM, as if that couldn't possibly have any connotations with...erm...I dunno.. . slave owners?

Alright.  From now on, nobody is allowed to own anything!

... wait.  No.  That sounds like either a hippie thing of a communist thing, and I'm pretty sure both of those are offensive for some reason or another.

[chefzombie]

i get called hippie as an insult all the time. my recent favorite though, is the guy who called me a wannabe beatnik, lol! 

[Alex]

i get called hippie as an insult all the time. my recent favorite though, is the guy who called me a wannabe beatnik, lol! 

Personally I'd shrug and say "Less of the wannabe."

[LilCerberus]

i get called hippie as an insult all the time. my recent favorite though, is the guy who called me a wannabe beatnik, lol! 

Twenty years ago, an old man I worked with called me a Yankee following a disagreement.

[LilCerberus]

Post 6k in the wrong thread. kinda............



They wouldn't dare change the name of Smokey The Bear, would they?
I mean, he's supposed to be discouraging children from smoking, but some idiot out there might come out & say his name is encouraging children to smoke......

And the woke crowd...
Just imagine the hate fest when somebody starts screaming & crying about how his hat makes him look like a state trooper or a county deputy!!!!!!!!

[zelmo73]

Oh yeah, we have a delicious ice cream called the Eskimo Pie. It's a block of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate. Used to eat them regularlyl as a kid. Well, they're going to rename that, too. I guess major companies would rather appear woke and relevant than risk upsetting a bunch of uninformed imbeciles.

Being part Eskimo myself, I'm very offended that they are doing away with the name of this tasty snack for my sake. I grew up with this ice cream and I enjoyed the identity thing; like some of my friends  and I used to call it "our pies" or something like that. 

I wish they'd bring back the Washington Redskins name too. That name seemed to only offend white people; all the 'Skins that I ever knew loved the name. But oh well.

[Olivia Bauer]

Oh yeah, we have a delicious ice cream called the Eskimo Pie. It's a block of vanilla ice cream covered in chocolate. Used to eat them regularly as a kid. Well, they're going to rename that, too. I guess major companies would rather appear woke and relevant than risk upsetting a bunch of uninformed imbeciles.

Textbook example of people being outraged on behalf of someone else.

If I were to say something horribly offensive about Eskimos right now there's at most a 0.01% chance one of them would read it.