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Yes, unfortunately. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12022041/How-political-correctness-rules-in-Americas-student-safe-spaces.html ht

• fsloth 11y ago
  "...student had asked a colleague not to use the word 'violate’ – as in ''does this conduct violate the law'' – because the term might trigger distress”. Oh lordy. For a moment there I thought I was reading an issue of The Onion.
  • JorgeGT 11y ago
    "It is thus demonstrated that the perpetual motion machine of the first kind [redacted] the First Law of Thermodynamics..."
    • Ygg2 11y ago
      "We [redacted] the first barrier of the organism".
  • anexprogrammer 11y ago
    Sadly they reached the point of reductio ad absurdum perhaps a decade ago. It's a little frightening how similar it is to newspeak (1984) in attempting to eradicate undesirable concepts.
  • Cthulhu_ 11y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law