The Establishment Tolerance Training #1

Or “The Satirical Post That Ended My Medium Account”

Sarahs Joking
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

You Never Make Fun of The Establishment

QUESTION FROM OUR READERS

“I don’t appreciate it when you call people ‘bigoted’ or ‘prejudiced.’

I expect more respectful language from you.”

— From “Upset” via “Ask Amy,” Washington Post, 24 June 2017

Dear Upset,

It is the height of disrespect to use words to describe things, and no apology can adequately repair the damage these terms cause to the delicate and important feelings of people who believe others are subhuman piles of garbage bones who should be oppressed and abused on both an interpersonal and systemic level because they failed to have the good sense to be born white, heterosexual, cisgender, English-speaking, able-bodied, male, and American, like all the strong and great members of a master race whose very existence is threatened by the use of adjectives.

Sarahs Joking

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I write whatever I want, not whatever gets applause. Satirist, comic, award-winning writer.

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