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More Adventures of the Easily Offended

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

By News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd

Published August 17, 2016

More Adventures of the Easily Offended

A March video featured a black San Francisco State University woman angrily confronting a white student, accusing him of "cultural appropriation" because he was wearing his hair in dreadlocks.

A March fitness club ad pitch in Sawley, England, picturing an extraterrestrial with the caption, "And when they arrive, they'll take the fat ones first," was denounced by an anti-bullying organization as "offensive."

A May bus-stop ad for a San Francisco money lender ("10 percent down. Because you're too smart to rent") was derided for "ooz[ing] self-congratulatory privilege."