Milli Hill discussed on GB News

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Andrew Doyle and Colin Brazier

Also mention JKR and Suzanne Moore

Ha, this website might need a name change soon, the trouble is: 'individualswithacervixnet.com' isn't quite so catchy and its quite tricky to type in!

We are living in strange times indeed. Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts has decided that the term picnic should be banned because the word “is often associated with lynchings of black people in the United States”. This was news to me, so I did a bit of research and found this:

"The claim that the word picnic is “often associated with lynchings of black people” is ridiculous. 99.99% of people talking about going on a picnic have no idea that the term has even the slightest connection to lynchings. They are using this term in exactly the same sense that informed its original 18th century usage, which referred to the sharing of food outdoors."

from www.rt.com/op-ed/527768-banning-words-picnic-language-police/

So at least I was in the 99.99%!

At what point is it these fuckwits creating and reinforcing racist associations?

I think that every time I’m informed by “anti-racists” of some new racist stereotype that I never heard of before. (Black women being “masculine” came as a massive surprise to me.) But it’s even more ridiculous with this language policing.

I bet that 99% of all people who mentally associate “picnic” with lynchings have that association because these or similar idjits told them about it.

And people simply aren’t going to stop using a widespread word like “picnic” so what good is done by spreading the meme that it’s linked to lynching? I would say they are perpetuating harm. Imagine a small Black child learning about this and having that mental association with the word “picnic” for the rest of their life. Horrible.

Reuters factchecked the assertion about the origins of picnic and report it is a myth:

www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-picnic-origin-lynchings-idUSKCN24E21V