Why she doesn't just go whole hog and declare them "fluffy, cuddly, pink bunny" children remains a mystery.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Poverty is doubleplus ungood
Why she doesn't just go whole hog and declare them "fluffy, cuddly, pink bunny" children remains a mystery.
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I'm sure the senator's people looked into those words and found something insensitive about all of them.
ReplyDelete"Fluffy" could easily be construed as the senator showing favoritism towards cotton farmers, and then there would be cries for her to replace it with "leafy".
To use "cuddly" would also require a disclaimer as to whether it was a "good touch" cuddly or not.
"Pink" of course would be giving too much attention to one type of cancer awareness over the others and we already have too many ribbons stuck to the senator's limo as it is.
And finally "bunny" implies support for rodents that eat crops, thus offending those same lobbyists, I mean farmers, that we just went round and round with over "fluffy".
No, those words are far too inflammatory for the senator to use in her description.
There is something very... differently-intelligent about this.
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