# Brandeis University considers 'picnic' to be oppressive language **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandeis-university-considers-picnic-to-be-oppressive-language/945016 "2021-06-25T19:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 59
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandeis-university-considers-picnic-to-be-oppressive-language/945016/59 "2021-06-26T16:08:11Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > But consider that, for many voters, this sort of speech-police nonsense is _ **exactly** _ what people have in mind when they think of the term “PC.” Every time something ludicrous like this happens, a candidate like Trump picks up some votes. I think you have the cause and effect reversed. Candidates like Trump want votes so they seek out nonsense like this and publicize it. They look for ridiculous things nobody would have otherwise heard of and promote them as national news. It wouldn’t surprise me if you could trace a money trail back to the source and find many of the people out on the far left lunatic fringe are actually being supported by conservatives. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brandeis-university-considers-picnic-to-be-oppressive-language/945016)._