Politically CorrectBy Selwyn Duke

Cancel cultists have made many inane name-change and language-innovation demands in pursuit of an agenda appearing to be a hybrid between the Khmer Rouge’s “Year Zero” and a Saturday Night Live skit. The Redskins and Indians football team names, Aunt Jemima, and Uncle Ben have been sent to the cornfield, as have Cream of Wheat’s black chef and Land O’Lakes’ Indian woman. We’ve also been told that “black hole,” “angel food cake,” “master bedroom,” and “picnic” are offensive terms and that a woman — excuse me, it’s “womxn” now — is actually a “birthing person.” Now the word police are at it again, this time with a complaint that really takes the angel food cake, at least as far as gripes about sports team names go. To wit:

An activist group has kvetched about a baseball team called the Macon Bacon.

I had to double-check this story to ensure it wasn’t satire, and, sure enough, it’s another product of our truth-is-stranger-than-fiction time. But there’s good news, too….

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