One of the consequences of the Black Lives Matter campaign has been a sharp increase in language censorship. Moreover, it concerns not only words and word usage, which can be offensive to blacks, but also words that hitherto have not offended blacks. And even more than that - until now they were completely unknown to them, which makes resentment very difficult. 

For example, in the German-speaking area, the word mohr, which has long been used in a purely historical sense, “Moor,” “Arap,” was banned. In Russian, one can also say "the arap of Peter the Great", and this will not offend anyone. The obsolete "Ethiopian" (through e!) Also does not hurt anyone. It was like that in Germany, but it won’t be like that anymore.

The historical names Mohrenplatz and Mohren Apotheke (where the nomenclature of drugs and the racial composition of visitors are exactly the same as in other pharmacies), as well as the names of confectionery, were persecuted. The Mohrenkopf cake was banned, the Dutch Moorkop - “the head of the Moor”. There are different recipes, one of them is profiterozer, glazed with chocolate lipstick, on top of which is a rose from whipped cream. For centuries they lived, ate, did not grieve - now it is impossible.

In neighboring France, L'Oréal Group decided to remove the words “white”, “light” and “brighten” from the names of all skin care products. Suppose blacks are not appropriate to use such creams now, Michael Jackson, whiter than snow, is not our method, but if some blond beast decided to additionally lighten, what is the sin?

The Australian fighters with racism also engaged in chess, where there are black and white pieces, with whites always starting. From such democracy and liberalism even the Weltmeister G.K. Kasparov, advising the antipodes to play go - there begin black.

The BLM campaign has also affected the semi-finished food industry. Uncle Ben's (rice in bags, as well as various meat sauces), Aunt Jemima (mixes for baking ripe pancakes, as well as syrups) are now also banned. For the reason that Uncle Ben is portrayed as a patriarchal Negro, which is racism. Moreover, “uncle” is a slavish nickname. Now you need to say bro. Same thing with aunt.

In the USSR, where serfdom was condemned no less than slavery in the United States, chocolate “Pushkin's Tales” was nonetheless produced, where the poet and his serf slave Arina Rodionovna were depicted on a wrapper. 

Only aunt Jemima treats pancakes, pancakes, and the nanny and the poet drink half a cup from the mug. Glavlit did not bother to censor such an apology of serf slavery.

Of course, we have been ahead of the rest. Including in the field of gastronomic. In the framework of the struggle against cosmopolitanism (and even twenty years earlier - in the framework of the struggle against the ideology of tsarism), the boyar stew was transformed into potato soup with fresh mushrooms, Nikolaev cabbage soup into cabbage soup, French bun into city soup, and Limburg cheese into dorogobuzh .

It was relatively harmless, and in a not-so-well-fed time even if you could name it, if only there was something to slurp, but ideologically militant censorship was even engaged in bugs, spiders and Moydodyrs, and this was not very pleasant.

The line "And unclean chimney sweeps - shame and shame!" was interpreted in the class sense, especially - the lines from the “Flies-Tsokotuha” “And the beetles are horned, men are rich”, in which sympathy was found for kulak elements. Moreover, he clearly analyzed artificial intelligence - “men + rich = fists”. Just like Zuckerberg.

And here it’s not worth marveling that in the fairy tale “Crocodile” they found an apology for the Kornilov rebellion. The intellect of advanced ideologists still can not.

And the enemy sortie can be found anywhere - the main thing to look for. How they searched for the fascist sign in innocent pictures and patterns. Yes, and more recently, fighters against Zionism were vividly interested in New Year’s snowflakes, which had a hexagonal shape, that is, clearly ascending to the Mogendovid.

In the USSR, the completely heightened censorship of words and symbols still ended in the 1950s. Reliably, it continued even further, but in a rudimentary, no longer terrible form - and the term could not be obtained, and even they would not be expelled from work. The absolutely idiotic cruel manifestations of an advanced ideology under Brezhnev came to naught. Stagnation - he stagnates in ideological militancy.

But the advanced West is now in a phase corresponding to our 1920s - there is room to grow and develop. And here everyone is wondering: will the peak of ideological fury be reached, or will fiery ideologists be hand in hand and the Black Lives Matter will enter the phase of the "Lenin University of Millions". That is a dreary dope, but not seriously affecting anyone.

With our love of the expensive stones of Europe, stagnation would be better. Where are you, euro brezhnev?

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