Out, Damned Picque-Nique!

You know how conservatives make fun of liberals all the time because liberals put their feelings ahead of a thing we fuddy-duddies like to call "objective reality"?

Imagine a world where liberals agree with that and *still* insist on having their made-up greivances acknowledged.

Well, imagine no longer! The American campus can make dreams come true, including dreams of oppression.

From Volokh, quoting the Albany Times Union of Apr. 18, 2000:

To many, the word picnic conjures images of romance, of leisurely days in the park with cheese and a bottle of wine.

But for 40 University at Albany students, it harks back to an ugly chapter in American history -- when picnic, they alleged, meant a racist lynching....

Zaheer Mustafa, a student who serves as affirmative action director for the Student Assembly, issued the warning despite learning that the word had a harmless French derivation. It stems from the 17th-century pique-nique and referred to a fashionable type of social entertainment in which each person who attended brought a share of the food.

"My job is to make sure people from underrepresented groups are heard," Mustafa said. "Whether the claims are true or not, the point is the word offended."

This is what "social justice" means: the right of a liberal to declare your speech offensive, thus hateful, thus criminal, thus shutting you the hell up, even if there exists no rational or objective basis beyond the liberal's feelings for the original objection.