Ah, the report in the U.K. Daily Mail from
MidEngineManiachttps://www.dailymail.co.uk...isk-knife-crime.htmlI think it's a "cutting edge" approach to the problem of knives being misused as weapons or mishandled and resulting in accidental injuries.
But this part caught my eye:
| | | quote | | Last year the Government produced hundreds of thousands of fried chicken boxes with messages designed to deter young people from knife crime. |
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What's this about? Does the British government operate a nationalized version of KFC? (And is it overseen by a Colonel from the British Army?) Or is that part of the U.K.'s social safety net, the British version of Food Stamps?
Then, this:
| | | quote | | They were slammed as racist and reductive by several politicians, celebrities and commentators. |
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Racist... ya' think? Did each box of fried chicken include a (small) slice of watermelon?
As for
reductive... I think that's how I perceive some of the ideas and messages that are commonplace on this forum. I just never realized that the categorical term that could have been my response, thousands of times already, is "reductive." So let's start toeing the line here, you
reductionists. You
know who you are.
Someone's looking askance upon you.Click to show[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 01-17-2020).]
