I guess this is satire (it's an excerpt from the article linked in the first post):

"She says a lot of people are having fun finding new titles for Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" which presents problems with every word except "and" and "the." Ravitch said old is ageist, man is sexist and sea can't be used in case a student lives inland and doesn't grasp the concept of a large body of water."

To which I would add, "and" is pluralistic and therefore unpatriotic, and "the" is both inflexible and "Caribbean-centric" because it implies there's only one sea.   

Mr Happy, you may think that you're making a satirical reference there, but a few years ago there was a huge kafuffle in Toronto, because an entertainment company decided to stage a production of "Showboat". All these folks got together and started "The Coalition to Stop Showboat", you'd have thought there were no real social justice issues they could be working on.

Never mind that Showboat was obviously sympathetic to the oppressed black workers of the south and the music has been performed by leftwing icons like Paul Robeson.

It got quite surreal when one of the coalition leaders, a Toronto city councillor, said in a public meeting that "these racist productions are usually put on by persons of Jewish extraction..."

The show went ahead, but entrepeneur Garth Drabinsky, who staged it, is now facing about a zillion charges of fraud in both Canada and the U.S. for sleazy financial dealings with his staging company. So I don't know who got the last laugh...

W-O