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Ron Liddle: “The phrase ‘skeleton in the closet’ is, of course, offensive to Britain’s community of fleshless beings…”

July 24, 2017 By Kathy Shaidle

...or ‘people of bone’ as they prefer to be called these days.

Why pick on a skeleton, they argue, while also objecting to the term ‘skeleton’ itself, which has negative connotations relating to the undead, etc. ‘It is a common and hurtful misapprehension that we “rattle”, anyway,’ a spokesman for the Advancement of Unfleshed Peoples (AUP) told me. ‘We may joke about this rattling among ourselves and even use the word skeleton from time to time. As in, “yo, skeleton bro, how you hangin’? Loose?” But that’s because we’ve reclaimed the terminologies. They are not for the likes of you to use. You people with flesh, who have cultural hegemony and economic power.’

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