
#387 "Criminally Inclined, Grammatically Policed"
The Fifth Column
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Black Is Fuck, Is That Okay?
Stanford has banned the use of a phrase attributed to an old British law that allowed men to beat their wives with sticks, no wider than their thumb. "I think it's fucking gross because the context is this expression normalizes violence against animals," he says. The university would require one when you're writing a paper, have some sort of evidence to justify a claim,. but not in censoring language.
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