New frontiers in hypersensitvity: State Department officer says ‘holding down the fort’ is racist

[Valin]

Yahoo News/The Daily Caller:

8/29/12

 

John M. Robinson, the Chief Diversity Officer at the U.S. Department of State, wants America’s diplomats to know that common phrases and idioms like “holding down the fort” are, in fact, deeply racist.

 

Robinson, who also serves as director of the Department’s Office of Civil Rights, used his “Diversity Notes” feature in the July/August issue of the official “State Magazine” to examine the hateful roots of everyday sayings. In one recent public relations kerfuffle at Nike, Inc., he wrote, the company torpedoed a sneaker called the “Black and Tan.”

 

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Robinson would like us all to learn from the sneaker company’s inadvertent racism and really start watching what we say. For example, did you know “going Dutch” is a reference to Netherlanders’ apparently well-known parsimoniousness, and that your widowed neighbor, sweet old Mrs. Rasmussen, cries every time she hears you use it?

 

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Speaking for the insensitive knuckle dragging neanderthal community, I believe it would be a very good idea if some sensitive sharing caring type could make a list of words and phrases we are not allowed to use least the feelings of some group or another be violated.