Calling cookies gingerbread 'people' suggests we're 'spiritually neutering' ourselves, Fox News' Tucker Carlson says

Fox News' Tucker Carlson is fighting back against "spiritual neutering," one holiday cookie at a time.

On Tuesday's Tucker Carlson Tonight, contributor Tammy Bruce brought up some very disturbing news: A gingerbread man is now sometimes referred to as a "gingerbread person." It's just the latest development in "a series of living your entire life being bullied into what you can and cannot say," Bruce says. And it shows that "just the smallest thing... can be the tipping point" in policing speech, she said about the name of a cookie on national TV.

Nevertheless, Carlson is onboard with Bruce's assessment, and suggests "the rest of us shouldn't participate in our own spiritual neutering." Again, they are discussing a cookie.

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Fellow PC-fighting personality Piers Morgan also pointed out this troublesome development in a Tuesday tweet. More troublesome is the fact that gingerbread persons live in homes made from their own bodies, but that's a debate for another Fox News day.