Defense Department to remove photos of WWII plane Enola Gay because it has 'gay' in its name

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Granite@midwest.social · 24 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Are we also going to stop trans-Atlantic flights now too?

Straight Atlantic flights only. But no Bacon that shit has transfats.

@#!& fats.

"Straight" to the bottom of the Sea

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 19 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I wonder if there's other "offensive" terms we can find to highlight the absurdity and offensive nature of this action.

Teddy is the name of lingerie, so Teddy Roosevelt needs to be wiped out of history.

I'm sure there's others ..

Anyone remember what Dan Savage did to Rick Santorum back in the day? We could bring something like that back to make new words for them to go after https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_the_neologism_%22santorum%22

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Lemmist@lemm.ee · -9 pts · 1y (3 replies)

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Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Bro 'Enola Gay' is someone's name, from a time before the word 'gay' was even associated with homosexuality.

Willfully stupid people are even worse than the bigots sometimes I swear to God

Lemmist@lemm.ee · -9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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Cope, dummy

wanderwisley@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Need to ban the Flintstones opening theme song as well. That will cause the pice of gas and groceries to go down for sure.

I went there this morning! Hahaha

Ban Deck the Halls Christmas song.

I think they must be joking, this timeline is so gay.