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Slack.com slash DHQ. CNN has published an article about everyday words and phrases that

might be misconstrued as racist by CNN. The one-time leader in cable news and current

punchline to the old joke, what starts with C and ends with N and is dishonest, issued

the article in the hopes of filling the space between two other articles. One entitled,

I hate Trump so much I think I gave myself a hernia and the other, a public service

featurette on how to tell the difference between Jim Acosta and a long-known. The article

starts off by pointing out the tragic link to slavery in the phrase, master bedroom.

Yes, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, clavin' you in cordial rap scallion. We

know you regard CNN as a steaming pile of CNN, but that's no reason to make up stories

that are even stupider than the stories on CNN. But no, this is absolutely true. The article

says of the term master bedroom quote, and this is a real quote, while it's unclear whether

the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history. Now you may

laugh while rolling over and over on the floor, clutching your stomach and shouting, ma,

come in here and see how stupid CNN is. But who can deny that when one thinks of the

phrase, master bedroom, you can help but imagine the miserable rows of enslaved bedrooms singing

bedroom spirituals as they labor tirelessly, eti-rallously, in the bedroom field. CNN also

cites the terms blacklist and whitelist, saying in another real quote, though the origins

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