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"...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 lo
by 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 agoSadly 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 agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law