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New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 5:38:47 AM   
Aylee


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Status: offline 		In Seattle, the terms 'citizen' and 'brown bag' are now offensive


'Citizen' and 'brown bag' are now offensive words, Seattle tells government employees.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/Blog/2013/08/02/In-Seattle-the-terms-citizen-and-brown-bag-are-now-offensive/3681375478745/?spt=hs&or=on

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Public information officers for the City of Seattle have been advised to stop using the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" -- as in brown-bag lunch -- saying they could be offensive to some city residents.

Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights circulated the memo encouraging government employees to avoid using the potentially offensive terms.

Instead of "brown-bag lunch," he suggests "sack lunch" or, for some inexplicable reason "lunch-and-learn," as in, "do you want to go out with us, or are you lunch-and-learning it?"


Given the Weiner scandal, I find "sack lunch" offensive....*sarcastic snort*

I remember attending, "brown bag seminars" while I was at the University. I also actually OWN and USE brown paper lunch bags. I think that we may be getting a little bit too PC these days.

Edited to add an "o."


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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 6:08:49 AM   
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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 7:16:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's interesting concerning C(c)itizen, and its usage in the US Constitution. Most people haven't a clue.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 9:26:44 AM   
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The only one they ever argue however is the federal.




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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 9:32:07 AM   
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I'm offended by being told what words I can't use. Does that mean Seattle has to knock this shit off?

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 9:32:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

Oh FFS

I'm offended by being told what words I can't use. Does that mean Seattle has to knock this shit off?


One could only hope.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 9:37:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think the people in the government need to be put into brown citizen bags.

I have some suitable ones made for biohazards, but they're black. Don't ask where I got them.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 9:54:30 AM   
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Oh FFS
I'm offended by being told what words I can't use. Does that mean Seattle has to knock this shit off?


Too bad you aren't annoyed. Might have been able to try the Government in the UK!

Personally, I would start using those words on purpose. I am quite interested in why "citizen" is a word to avoid.


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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 10:07:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Many years ago, a group of men got together who had a love for the old war birds from WW2. They formed the Confederate Air Force.

Decades passed and some butt hurt ass decided to file a lawsuit about the name.

In the name of "political correctness" the organization changed the name to "Commemorative Air Force."

A local annual open air play had to be rewritten because some people got upset since it dealt with the history of the region and portrayed the Comanches as hostile. It was not the Comanche nation that was upset, but some white Anglo Saxon protestant idiot that felt it was wrong.

A local college originally founded by the Methodist Church for the higher education of Native Americans was forced by the NCAA, after complaints by none native Americans, to change their mascot from the Indians to something else, or be banned from NCAA competition.

Now Seattle is joining the long list of Cities, agencies and who ever who are going to force political correctness on people.

And one question.

What the fuck is wrong with citizen? We are citizens of the United States after all. This is bullshit.

Political Correctness can get fucked.

I am a proud son of the Confederacy, I am a rebel, I belong to the Free Texas Movement, I believe in slavery, after all every man should own at least 7 women of as many races as he wants, and one of them better know how to cook!

People are not "vertically Challenged" they are fucking short, period.

People who need warnings on fan belts to turn off the fucking engine before putting the belt on are not "intellectually challenged" they are dumb as fucking rocks.

A Yankee is just that, a fucking Yankee who would not know good bar be que if he/she were beat upside the head with it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers SUCK.

Now if anyone does not like my statements, please by all means, respond. However if you are Politically Correct about it, you are a weak willed, lily livered, mangy SHEEP HERDER!!

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 10:09:53 AM   
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Government employees can be made uncollectable in a lawsuit, will soon have the last union left in the country and wanted to be exempt from Obamacare. They consider themselves superior.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 10:34:11 AM   
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The Pittsburgh Steelers SUCK.



STEELERS Rock !!

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 10:57:11 AM   
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as far as the OP goes,
I still say manhole, and fireman
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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 11:11:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic


as far as the OP goes,
I still say manhole, and fireman



Yeah but when you use those words, it usually has something to do with your strapon.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 11:13:24 AM   
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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 11:57:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

What the fuck is wrong with citizen? We are citizens of the United States after all. This is bullshit.




no we are not all citizens, my hat is off to the city of seattle for making my argument, that is the argument I have brought to the boards without the help from any authorizing source.

In fact was it a west coast case that stated that only certain people are US citizens?

Now we have an authorizing source.






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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 12:44:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Many years ago, a group of men got together who had a love for the old war birds from WW2. They formed the Confederate Air Force.

Decades passed and some butt hurt ass decided to file a lawsuit about the name.

In the name of "political correctness" the organization changed the name to "Commemorative Air Force."

A local annual open air play had to be rewritten because some people got upset since it dealt with the history of the region and portrayed the Comanches as hostile. It was not the Comanche nation that was upset, but some white Anglo Saxon protestant idiot that felt it was wrong.

A local college originally founded by the Methodist Church for the higher education of Native Americans was forced by the NCAA, after complaints by none native Americans, to change their mascot from the Indians to something else, or be banned from NCAA competition.

Now Seattle is joining the long list of Cities, agencies and who ever who are going to force political correctness on people.

And one question.

What the fuck is wrong with citizen? We are citizens of the United States after all. This is bullshit.

Political Correctness can get fucked.

I am a proud son of the Confederacy, I am a rebel, I belong to the Free Texas Movement, I believe in slavery, after all every man should own at least 7 women of as many races as he wants, and one of them better know how to cook!

People are not "vertically Challenged" they are fucking short, period.

People who need warnings on fan belts to turn off the fucking engine before putting the belt on are not "intellectually challenged" they are dumb as fucking rocks.

A Yankee is just that, a fucking Yankee who would not know good bar be que if he/she were beat upside the head with it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers SUCK.

Now if anyone does not like my statements, please by all means, respond. However if you are Politically Correct about it, you are a weak willed, lily livered, mangy SHEEP HERDER!!


I agree with all except the Yankee bit. I've got a buddy on the Aporkalypse Now team that can make some mean ribs, sir. Don't make us march down there all over again...

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 4:22:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

quote:

ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Oh FFS
I'm offended by being told what words I can't use. Does that mean Seattle has to knock this shit off?


Too bad you aren't annoyed. Might have been able to try the Government in the UK!

Personally, I would start using those words on purpose. I am quite interested in why "citizen" is a word to avoid.


They said it is because many who live in the Seattle are not citizens and might feel left out.
I kid you not.
They say "brown bag" is racist.

< Message edited by BamaD -- 8/4/2013 4:24:11 PM >

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 4:34:48 PM   
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I can sort of see the citizens/residents point. Sort of.

I'd never heard about the "brown-bag" test, but apparently others have:

http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/03/environmental-racism-brown-paper-bag.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color#Brown_paper_bag_test
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown%20paper%20bag%20test

Always interesting to learn a new bit of history, even if it's sad.

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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 5:08:50 PM   
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RE: New words to avoid - 8/4/2013 5:46:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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I can sort of see the citizens/residents point. Sort of.

I'd never heard about the "brown-bag" test, but apparently others have:

http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2008/03/environmental-racism-brown-paper-bag.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color#Brown_paper_bag_test
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brown%20paper%20bag%20test

Always interesting to learn a new bit of history, even if it's sad.

How much research did they have to do to find that one.

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