"Gravitationally Completely Collapsed Star"

[TheTwisted1]

Because you can't use the term "black hole" anymore - from The Dallas Morning News:

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has
become lost in the office.




Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become
a "white hole."




That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.




Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster's, is perhaps "the invisible remains of a
collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape."

Full article here.

I'm reminded of several other incidents, including when groups in the UK
created the term "thought showers" to replace "brainstorming" because they feared that latter term might be considered offensive to
epileptics. And, of course, you can forget the classic metaphor "the pot calling the kettle black."

--The Twisted One

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"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."

--Voltaire