Okay, are you ready for this? Math is now deemed "racist" so they might stop teaching it in elementary schools. And there's more: Suddenly a period at the end of a sentence is triggering to that generation known as "snowflakes", who are also triggered by the term snowflakes. Even though for the last 2,200 years the little dot has been used to end a sentence, to certain grown adults weaned on text messages it is a sign of suppressed aggression. Recently British writer Rhiannon Cosslett tweeted: "Older people – do you realize that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat?"
As a baby boomer, periods at the ends of sentences do not offend me. Go ahead, send me lots of short sentences ending with periods, I won't care, I can handle it. In fact, there is no bit of punctuation that I find upsetting. Instead, I am triggered by other things that I can't handle, like the following:
Smile Train ads showing kids with no upper lip
TV commercials showing animal abuse
Joe Biden's holier-than-thou WASPiness
Kamala Harris wearing sneakers on the cover of Vogue
Nancy Pelosi's matchy-matchy face masks
rappers with gold front teeth
childen with cancer
fatties eating piles of French fries in public with their fat kids
Rachel Maddow's smug smirk
bad weather predictions that don't materialize
people without face masks shopping in the grocery store
phone recordings that say "Our menu options have changed" when they haven't, ever
power outages
when someone says, "It is what it is"
food that arrives cold even after you stressed that you want it EXTRA HOT
Anderson Cooper trashing Trump mercilessly even though his own brother committed suicide so you'd think he'd lay off
Chris Cuomo having a TV show, or even a job
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