Tag Archives: Nonsense

Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall announced Tuesday that he would step away from the band days after he was criticized for praising a book authored by Andy Ngo who has reported extensively on Antifa. Marshall tweeted “Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the …

Disney+ has removed several movies, including “Dumbo,” “Peter Pan,” “The Aristocats” and “Swiss Family Robinson” from children’s profiles on its service over negative depictions and stereotypes.  The Walt Disney Company had previously placed content warnings on the films for “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people and cultures” in October. But now, it …

(Reuters) – Dove soap maker Unilever will remove the word “normal” from its beauty and personal care products, as well as stop digital alterations of body shapes and skin colour of models used in its advertising in a push to be more inclusive. Read more at Yahoo Finance

Last summer a group of University of Texas at Austin athletes posted an open letter on social media. They vowed not to participate in recruiting or fundraising events until the university had done more to atone for its past racial history. Writing about the school’s alma mater, the athletes demanded “the …

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Pepé Le Pew is not featured in any current Warner Bros. TV projects and there are no current plans for the controversial cartoon skunk to return.  They further reported that the news comes one day after it was reported that Pepé Le Pew was scrubbed from the …

Amazon has quietly rolled out a slight update to its new app icon that it debuted back in January, which alters the colorful strip of tape on the icon that bore an unfortunate resemblance to a toothbrush-style mustache. What’s next? Read more at The Verge

Dr. Suess, the venerable author of children’s books has been dropped from this years “Read Across America” event. The national day to encourage reading has long included Dr. Seuss books like The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who, The Grench Who Stole Christmas, and many others. The Loudon …

You can’t make this stuff up. Matt Meyer, Berkeley Federation of Teachers President is seen dropping his kid off at an in-person school after demanding that public schools remain closed.

Children’s Colorado hospital has dropped marking gender on patients wristbands as they are no longer ‘gender inclusive.’ Read more at NEON|NETTLE

Search giant Google is removing gender pronouns from its prominent predictive text feature in the Gmail platform because suggesting the wrong sex may cause offense in some users.  Read the whole story at NEON|NETTLE