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The answer: systemic racism. Elizabeth Wellington. But there are many more examples with racist connotations that are more difficult to navigate. Can you take your family on a picnic and not hold hate in your heart for Black people?

As language evolves, consider history and usage. The Angry Grammarian. White was pure. That idea is what systemic racism is built on. Peanut gallery , born in the vaudeville era, refers to the cheap seats in the theater where Black people were allowed to sit.

Remember, it was acceptable to refer to Black people as monkeys in polite company back then. So if you stop using the word picnic , does that really change anything? And people in power make life or death decisions for others based on this structure. Native American people made it crystal clear, for decades now, that the name of the Washington team was offensive to them. Consider context. Language is shifting and it requires some patience.

Resist the urge to dismiss their opinion or call them sensitive. Take the opportunity to listen to the person explaining their grievance, and use it to learn about the history of words like picnic , peanut gallery, or tipping point. Not necessarily. The directions for clearing cache of all browsers are here: www. Well, I'm not very savvy with computers but it seems that too much data like sites visited etc clutters up the poor computer's mind and so then it can't think clearly and starts forgetting things Edit: here is some general knowledge - although it is focused in detail about IE www.

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