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| City officials urge ban on 'potentionally offensive' language |
| 2013-08-02 |
| Political Correctness runs wild in the Peoples Republic of Seattle SEATTLE - An internal memo at Seattle City Hall is causing quite a stir. It suggests government workers no longer use the terms "citizen," or "brown bag." According to the Office for Civil Rights, the terms are potentially offensive and other words should be used. "Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'" Bronstein wrote. The Office of Civil Rights says Seattle serves all residents, whether they're United States citizens or not. And while city leaders publicize "brown bag" lunch meetings as a way to designate a bring-your-own lunch time event, the term has a sorted history. "It used to be a way people could judge skin color," Bronstein said in a phone interview. And all this time I thought it was because of the color of the BROWN PAPER BAG. Or perhaps Mr. Bronstein is lying... Does the public find it offensive? Most people agree it's not. But the City of Seattle isn't alone. State lawmakers have voted to remove gender specific words in official records. Freshman are now "first-years," journeymen are "journey-level," and penmanship is simply "handwriting." And state lawmakers are still IDIOTS To offend or not to offend, turns out to be a very sensitive question. So what is a person supposed to say instead of brown bag? According to the memo, people should try "lunch-and-learn" or "sack lunch." How about 'Brown bag lunch we have to call something else because Seattle City Officials are MORONS'? |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #13 Just more proof that the Gubmint does NOT + will NOT secure US Borders nor stop expanding the Debt. Lest we fergit, YEAR 2015 is only the beginning for a US suborned under OWG - it will take decades for the Globies + aligned to firmly entrench its protocols, mechanisms, structures + institutions, etc. SUB-IOW, HOW MUCH THE US MAINSTREAM IS ECON SUFFERING NOW, OR WORSE, WILL LAST FOR MANY MANY YEARS MORE UNTIL SUCH TIME OWG [UN-OWG] CAN NO LONGER BE CHALLENGED OR REMOVED. When the UNO is permanently integrated, NOT confederated. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-08-02 20:47 |
| #12 Zek |
| Posted by: Frank G on the road 2013-08-02 20:25 |
| #11 Helots? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2013-08-02 12:57 |
| #10 "Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'" Bronstein wrote. How about "servants" or "kulaks"? "Serfs"? "Peons"? "Campesino"? "Muzhik?" "Churls"? "Villeins"? "Bordarii"? "Cottarii"? Screw it, let's just cut to the chase and call 'em "slaves". |
| Posted by: charger 2013-08-02 10:42 |
| #9 It would be nice to clean up Black speech, every other word is "Fuck you" this is not the way, it just makes the "City Officials" look stupid. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-02 10:41 |
| #8 It has a sorted history. There's the actual factual history and the revised politically correct history. You have to sort the fact from the fiction in history. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-08-02 10:40 |
| #7 As the world burns and falls around them they are still so worried about the little things, like what to call a brown paper bag. This is what our Republic has become. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-08-02 10:03 |
| #6 Thy? BP, are you going medieval on us? :-) |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2013-08-02 09:18 |
| #5 "a sorted history" Where did this dingleberry come from? Is it in the original memo? If it isn't a typo for "sordid" WTF does it mean? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-08-02 09:15 |
| #4 Thy could shorten "Citizens and Undocumented Migrants". |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-08-02 08:42 |
| #3 Sack lunch is offensive to Moslem women's so try again. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-08-02 06:59 |
| #2 "Citizen" is offensive (because no longer true?)? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-08-02 05:56 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: junkiron 2013-08-02 04:55 |