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It’s been a bad week in the media for people sensitive to trigger issues. Rape, consent, racism, intolerance, and general lack of humanheartedness abound, and with them the traveling herds of trolls who flock to such ripe feeding grounds from their mountain bridges.<\/p>\n
In my assumed role as a sherpa through the treacherous territory of social sensitivity and awareness of others’ boundaries, I’m offering this Friday Night List. If you feel a “but” coming on at the end of these sentences, do not say whatever you were about to–you’ll only end up making someone mad.<\/p>\n
SENTENCES THAT OFTEN DO, BUT SHOULD NOT, HAVE ANY MORE WORDS AFTER THEM <\/strong><\/p>\n (No Buts About It.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n “I’m not a racist.”<\/em><\/p>\n “We can all agree that bullying is never okay.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m not trying to be insulting.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Rape is rape.”<\/em><\/p>\n “We shouldn’t make light of a serious crime.”<\/em><\/p>\n “That looks great.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I appreciate your hard work.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Maybe I shouldn’t say this out loud.”<\/em><\/p>\n “No offense.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I wasn’t supposed to tell anyone.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Hey, baby.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I’m sure this was your best effort.”<\/em><\/p>\n “You have a wonderful, energetic child.”<\/em><\/p>\n “It’s not my cup of tea.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I understand you’re strapped for cash.”<\/em><\/p>\n “That must be hard for you.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I can’t imagine what it’s like to be you.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I appreciate how busy you are.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I don’t want to cross any boundaries.”<\/em><\/p>\n “Hitler\/Idi Amin\/Chairman Mao\/Darth Vader was a bad man.”<\/em><\/p>\n “You may not want to hear this.”<\/em><\/p>\n “I shouldn’t have to say this.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a bad week in the media for people sensitive to trigger issues. Rape, consent, racism, intolerance, and general lack of humanheartedness abound, and with them the traveling herds of trolls who flock to such ripe feeding grounds from their mountain bridges. In my assumed role as a sherpa through the treacherous territory of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[220,118,326],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies","tag-friday-night-lists","tag-lists","tag-social-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}