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kleinbl00 · 3548 days ago · link · · parent · post: How the language police are perverting liberalism
This seems like Ebonics 2.0. If you look up "trigger warning" you see a bunch of articles talking about how stupid trigger warnings are. You find almost nothing talking about how they're good. I say "almost" because I assume there's some somewhere but I didn't find it. If you look up "microaggression" you find an XOJane article celebrating a Tumblr blog that has had about 150 posts in a year, the most recent a week ago. There seems to be a whole bunch more discussion of 'ZOMG the thought police are coming' than 'why our language needs to be more sensitive.' Especially when the author calls Hanna Rosin 'longtime friend.'