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This is how bad things have become:


“They associated us with the cookies and the camping, and those were both scary concepts,” said Amelia de Dios Romero, the Girl Scouts’ multicultural marketing manager. “Selling cookies, to them, meant going door-to-door to strangers, and camping was sleeping in the woods with danger there.”

Great. Our civilization now contains cultural spaces where the primary associations of cookies and camping are terrifying.

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