Add award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates to list of those who've had enough of cancel culture. Oates last week mocked a student-prepared list at Brandeis University in Massachusetts that suggested banning words and phrases such as "picnic," "survivor" and "you guys." "What is strange is that while the word ‘picnic’ is suggested for censorship, because it evokes, in some persons, lynchings of Black persons in the US, the word ‘lynching’ is not itself censored," the author of "A Garden of Earthly Delights" tweeted Thursday. The suggested banned words were deemed to be associated with violence, gender or racial exclusion, cultural appropriation – or were just considered generally inappropriate. "what sort of punishment is doled out for a faculty member who utters the word ‘picnic’ at Brandeis?--or the phrase ‘trigger warning’?

Source: Fox News June 27, 2021 04:30 UTC