TITLE TITLE CANCEL CULTURE
Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. Pull quote. And I apologize for my insensitivity in even using the “10-1 word.” I have done so only to show its power to injure and offend. Fortunately, we have already begun to “no platform” this transgressive integer. Elsewhere in the sports world, there are 9 people on a baseball team. Baseball is played for 9 innings. Do the math... Of course MLB has no transgender players. 9 is a hurtful number. Consider the cat-o’-9-tails and the way it was used to suppress peaceful protests such as shipboard mutinies. And consider how the 9 cats and their tails felt. Use of the phrase “a cat has 9 lives” is opposed by animal rights activists. It’s a clear provocation to animal abuse. And the “49ers” of the California gold rush were not only capitalist, they were also imperialist, colonialist oppressors of California’s indigenous peoples and its Latina, Latino, and Latinx population. Mining for gold is ecologically unsustainable, harmful to native plant and animal species, and releases toxic substances into the ecosystem. Meanwhile, Super Bowl IX was lost by the Minnesota Vikings, whose team name is a pejorative term for Scandinavian-Americans. (Or ought to be after that guy in a Viking hat helped invade the Capitol Building.)
“K-9 Corps” forces dogs to be complicit in militarism. Ownership of a 9mm handgun is nothing if not a “trigger warning” of opposition to gun control. The song “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” trivializes the serious problem of campus binge drinking. Price tags such as “$49.99” are insensitive to those who are differently abled in cognition and therefore may be disadvantaged by not realizing that an item costs $50. There are 9 justices on the Supreme Court, with 6 of them appointed by Republican presidents. I’m not saying this is what killed RBG, but there are rumors on www.staywoke. org. And there’s no longer a firm majority in support of abortion rights. Pregnancy lasts 9 months, and overpopulation is a major cause of climate change. Telling activists in the struggle against social inequity to go to hell is hate speech... There are 9 circles of hell in the Inferno by a very dead white male Dante, Coincidence? I don’t think so. And I apologize for my insensitivity in even using the “10-1 word.” I have done so only to show its power to injure and offend. Fortunately, we have already begun to “no platform” this transgressive integer. Remember how many planets we used to count in our solar system? Not anymore. Thanks to arithmetical correctness, Pluto has been relegated to the status of “trans- Neptunian Kuiper belt object.”
62
April 2021
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online