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

Tammy Bruce on gingerbread cookies.
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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.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.