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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:59AM (#34065932)
Peta came out with a list of "vegan" idioms. Probably mostly a publicity stunt and some are clunky, but I try and use "feeding 2 birds with one scone" because it's a good pun.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by cutemonster on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:45AM (#34066574)
Or "feeding 2 cats with one bird"
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by forgetfulness on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:41AM (#34068370)
That's really problematic because scones are not part of a bird's natural diet, and makes them subservient to the charity of humans.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @11:46AM (#34068455)
That's gonna be a fun one to watch if they ever follow up on this reasoning, given that at this point, most land-dwelling animals are "subservient to the charity of humans". Those that aren't are either hiding in few undeveloped areas, or gone extinct.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by ticviking on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:09PM (#34083346)
That is a good pun, and tells me a lot about someone if they've modified their habits of speech that much to avoid speaking like everyone else to project their worldview onto it. I really admire people who are actually wholly integrated that way.
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