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Peak Stupidity: OUP Bans Use of Words 'Pig' And 'Sausage' To Avoid Offending Muslims And Jews

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/15/2015 17:30 -0400

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

There appears to be a direct correlation between terror attacks and stupidity in the Western world. The more attacks, the more idiotic the response. Just when you thought the bar couldn’t move any lower, it has. From the International Business Times:

One of the biggest education publishers in the world has warned its authors not to mention pigs or sausages in their books to avoid causing offense.

Oxford University Press (OUP) said all books must take into consideration other cultures if they hope to sell copies in countries across the world.

As a result, the academic publisher has issued guidance advising writers to avoid mentioning pigs or “anything else which could be perceived as pork” so as not to offend Muslim or Jewish people.

The move was revealed during a discussion on free speech during BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in the wake of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo and its decision to use an image of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover of its latest issue.

Presenter Jim Naughtie said: “I’ve got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people.

“Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by OUP was the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which could be perceived as pork.

For more on the completely insane and irrational response of Western governments to the recent Paris attacks see:

Britain’s “War on Terror” Insanity Continues – David Cameron Declares War on Encryption

French Authorities Demonstrate Defense of Free Speech by Arresting 54 People for Free Speech

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Thu, 01/15/2015 - 17:58 | 5666876 Ariadne

Pigs On The Wing

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:06 | 5666922 Uncle Remus

One of my favorites.

That Which Cannot Be Named On The Wing just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:31 | 5667721 gmak

Voldemort on the wing. hmmmm.....

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 17:59 | 5666878 SquadronVBF94

OUP is making the foolish assumption that the rug suckers have an interest in reading anything other than their hard bound toilet pape errrr I mean koran.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:00 | 5666883 shankster

All I have to say about this is...bacon, bacon, bacon, pork pork pork, piggy wiggy.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:01 | 5666886 shankster

Would you like Pork with that?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:00 | 5666899 Uncle Remus

O.M.G.

Does this mean the end of HOG CALLING?!?!?

That's just downright unAmerican.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:02 | 5666900 rejected

So ZH offended some folks showing Kermit getting ready for Miss Piggy.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:00 | 5666901 homebody

My friends have a pot-bellied pink thing that lives with them. Bet you thought it was a pig - no its the mother-in-law.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:02 | 5666911 Rootin' for Putin

Be multicultural, give pork muslim chicks and give jewish girls your sausage today!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:02 | 5666913 Ariadne

Pigs

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:03 | 5666920 Peter Pan

You know, I find it amazing that both Jews and Muslims are united on the issue of pork.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:05 | 5666932 rejected

No more Piggly Wiggly Grocery stores?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:34 | 5667422 XitSam

No more Arkansas Razorbacks?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:09 | 5666949 homebody

What are we going to call Charlie Brown's friend now?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:12 | 5666969 Uncle Remus

An EPA Superfund Site?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:13 | 5666976 clade7

"Dirty White Redneck" would easily get a pass...just tossing this out there, maybe "Shitty McTaxpayer"?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:10 | 5666967 f16hoser

Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage! Pig / Sausage!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:15 | 5666986 homebody

Its funny what little things can drive an individual over the edge. The end of polite society as we knew it.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:01 | 5667269 DutchR

Enyoy your pixsels

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:35 | 5667429 dvfco

Je suis 16hoser!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:41 | 5667468 dvfco

And yet, terms like "Papist Pig" and "Drunken Irish Mick" don't seem to raise an eyebrow. I could give a shit if someone makes fun of my religion or heritage, and I truly do not believe I'd be defending my forefather's homeland or my religion by acting like an asshole in response to a verbal or other attack.

What is it about self-confidence and one's religion and heritage?

For example, in NYC, you can always tell and insecure Italian when they get upset when you call the Verazanno Bridge the "Guinea Gangplank" - after all the Italians moving from Brooklyn to Staten Island.

Those who laugh - self-confident. Those who threaten your life - insecure.

(By the way - a great test to see if someone is screwing you in a business deal is to say, "Oh God, you're taking the bread out of my children's mouths." Contractors or salespeople who chuckle are generally cutting you a fair deal. Those who get defensive are always dry-humping you. Try it, you'll see. But, you have to keep a straight face.)

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:16 | 5667013 DollarMenu

How fucking dumb.

Eliminate the genus.

Let's pretend they never even existed.

Feel better now?

That takes some brains, Oxford sausage-heads.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:28 | 5667402 XitSam

When pigs are outlawed, only outlaws will be gastronomically satisfied.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:28 | 5667026 headhunt

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:19 | 5667035 q99x2

Say good-bye to the pigs and sausages bitchez.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:20 | 5667041 random999

The world is just getting more and more absurd. When you thought u´d seen it all, theres just more and more coming.

The only thing we know for sure is that if you get up at 8 in the morning, drive your selfdriving car to work. Come home at 5, turn on your TV and eat that ecological microwave food you bought after seeing an ad about it, YOU WILL BE FINE!

If we may implement a microchip in your penis we can asure you that you are not a terrorist! For your own safty of course, because noone is more important than you!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:33 | 5667090 Jethro

Just put the pigs in burkhas...nobody will be able to tell the difference

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:38 | 5667113 Peter Pan

This raises the possibility of halal pork.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:40 | 5667132 Jethro

I possibly ate the very first halal armadillo a few years ago. I made it halal be chanting aloha snackbar, facing east while we butchered it. That makes it halal right? Smothered it in Head Country BBQ Sauce and cooked it several hours on the grill. It wasn't bad. Sort of like a combination of dark turkey meat and pork.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:55 | 5667222 SofaPapa

Beautiful! Do you deliver?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:35 | 5667105 hot sauce technician

This definitely a false flag.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:38 | 5667122 homebody

I guess that insurance ad with the p^# in a blanket on the jumbotron is now banned.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:41 | 5667141 tuttisaluti

How about a hog

Or in french a sanglier

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:42 | 5667150 hot sauce technician

I love the looks on Arabs' faces when I walk around with alcohol in front of them. Though the more sensible ones who eschew the bs asceticism of islam and sneak out to jewtowns on the weekedns get loaded on booze are cool-er. There is hope.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:52 | 5667204 grunk

Alcohol and scrapple

http://www.delawareonline.com/story/life/2014/12/09/dogfish-heads-scrapp...

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:48 | 5667175 grunk

I live in the world of scrapple.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:48 | 5667185 loregnum

Humans are awesome. So evolved, so advanced.

This is even stupider than calling french fries feedom fries 13 years ago.

The worst thing is that instead of people slaming the OUP they will instead slam (Muslims and maybe Jews) like it is their fault for this idiocy.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:48 | 5667186 joego1

OK then I'm banning the word Oxford!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 18:57 | 5667238 homebody

Its so good to have a lite-hearted story on here for a change - some good laughs. Must get away from the impending doom and gloom once in a while.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:03 | 5667271 Joe Tierney

I guess I'm just piglitically incorrect...

In Spanish you say cochino for dirty pig. In Gringo-Spanish (Cheech & Chong) you'd say peeg! You durhtee peeg, man!

Kosher Sosshage - Ali Oinkhbar Mohammed brand sosshage - made from ground-up Yiddish, Muslim bizazeh, goy balls and schlimazel heads. Very tasty!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:15 | 5667324 Last of the Mid...

So camel-fucking raghead is ok?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:55 | 5667526 pitterrier

Muslims

Jews

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 19:58 | 5667546 Paraquat

Don't blame this one on the Jews. This is being done to kowtow to Muslim demands. The Jews are not protesting in the streets demanding that bacon be taken off the supermarket shelves, or threatening to blow up subway trains or hijack airplanes if their demands aren't met. Oxford University management doesn't want to say they are doing this because they are being terrorized by Muslims, so they are saying this to show their "respect" to Muslims AND Jews, thus defusing the responsibility away from those who are really responsible for this cowardly decision.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:04 | 5667578 tony bonn

fuck the jews...i will say pig and sausage all i want...and fuck oxford. i am sick and tired of jewish terrorism including that stupid goddamed lie called the holocaust. it was a fucking lie!!! it didn't happen.

and then you have the fucking israelis using nuclear weapons on new york city in 2001 and all over the middle east since then. israel should be wiped out. those psychopathic fucks are a complete cancer on the world.

boycott israel and all jewish media.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:27 | 5667697 HowdyDoody

It's a hoax. It is amazing, but not surprising, to see how many wishful thinkers believed it. I thought only bulls had rings through their noses allowing them to be lead by their owner.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/no-ban-on-mention-o...

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 09:38 | 5669709 Mi Naem

Thanks very much. Seriously.

Fact Checker? What are you doing here? Are you lost or something?

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:35 | 5667733 Peanut Butter E...

For April fools joke, zero hedge need a title change to:

PigHedge or ZeroPig or SwineWedge

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:35 | 5667738 Peanut Butter E...

Pig Latin for all articles!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 20:42 | 5667783 Gold N Glocks

Phuck the left handed ass wiping, wife beating, backward third century, rank smelling mooslim pedophiles! Anyone who doesn't appreciate a good BLT shouldn't be breathing!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:18 | 5667967 LithiumWarsWAKEUP

Mohammed was a pig fucker.

Moses was a pig fucker. So was the Pope. It's all true,,,because it's what I THINK.

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 21:19 | 5667977 tangolas

green eggs and redish orangey shaped food product.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 10:38 | 5668136 TalkToLind

*SNORT* Wah, wah, wah weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee mutherfuckers!

Thu, 01/15/2015 - 23:43 | 5668639 Praeda2

Anyone who doesn't like bacon and get the fuck off this planet.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 09:49 | 5669769 Mi Naem

We can always rely on Mike Krieger to check his facts.

http://global.oup.com/news-items/current/Statement_about_editorial_guide...

Statement about editorial guidelines

14 January 2015

Updated: 15th January

OUP does not have a blanket ban on pigs or pork products in its titles, and contrary to reports, there have been no recent changes to our guidelines in this area.

Mike, you remind me of that character in the Get Smart movie:

Larabee: Put me out there, chief, I'm not afraid to expose myself.

Agent 99: Do you ever think before you speak?

Larabee: No, I just whip it out there. It's what's best.

Fri, 01/16/2015 - 13:35 | 5670865 Zymurguy