RACEToday the word “field” has been judged to be racist.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Umberto Eco warned about doing that sort of thing in his novel Foucault’s Pendulum.

You invent stuff like that at your own peril, because there are lunatics that will act on them and it very likely will backfire on you.

[–]OuroborosTheory 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

fun fact, the villains in that book were based on a real occult far-right

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow, that’s really interesting. I read the book nearly twenty years ago, might have to give it another look now that I understand postmodernism a lot better.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

well, if sugar goes away that won't be a bad thing, but I get the point.

[–]shortchick 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You'll never pry my sugar from my cold, pudgy, dead hands.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would agree. This is all well and good if you keep it in the realm of satire or reveal your hand. Much like how the guy writing those rediculous academic papers and getting them submitted to journals was hilarious,the people compiling and reading the journals might not catch that it's satire and believe whole heatedly whatever rediculous bullshit you write in it. So you have to be quite careful.

Poe's law in action. Actually the labor conditions on a lot of sugar and coffee plantations even today is quite suspect, so the idea could hold water. Of course boycotting the products worsens the situation since now they don't have any income stream rather than a poor income stream, but idiots don't think beyond their own emotional satisfaction.