Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language

[Casino67]

FoxNews:

Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.

KOMO-TV reports that the city's Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.

 

"Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo obtained by the station. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'"

In an interview with Seattle's KIRO Radio, Bronstein said the term "brown bag" has been used historically as a way to judge skin color.

"For a lot of particularly African-American community members, the phrase brown bag does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people's skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home," Bronstein said.

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Of course Twitter found the need to contribute to the list of words @ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SeattleOffensiveWords&src=hash

 

I wonder if normal people living in Seattle are embarrassed? But then again, are there any normal people in Seattle?

[NCTexan]

I've found the most offensive language to Liberals are spoken facts.

 

Most of the time real facts fly in the face of their ideas, wishes and "feelings"...

 

... and sometimes prove points that an not considered "politically correct".

[Pepper]

@NCTexan @Casino67

 

 

From a comment on PJTatler

 

"The Left does not see 1984 as a warning, but as an instruction manual".

[Pepper]

The term "Master/slave" has been banned since late 99 in Los Angeles. And that was in computer technology.

 

See also

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/18/Homebuilders-dump-term-master-bedroom

 

Homebuilders scrap 'master bedroom' because of racist, gender-biased connotations by Michael Neibauer

Washington Business Journal Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 9:06am EDT

 

"Master bedroom" replaced with "owner bedroom" in floor plans

The “master suite” is being phased out — not from our homes, but from our lexicon. A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found that six no longer use the term “master” in their floor plans to describe the largest bedroom in the house. They have replaced it with “owner’s suite” or “owner’s bedroom” or, in one case, “mastre bedroom.” Why? In large part for exactly the reason you would think: “Master” has connotation problems, in gender (it skews toward male) and race (the slave-master).

Enter the owner's suite.

 

 

@NCTexan @Casino67

 

It is a scary world we have entered when only certain people can use certain words and other words cannot be used for fear of offending.

Thank goodness I am a member of the master race.

[Casino67]

Sorry, but the use of the word 'member' infers there are others like you in a group. That is blatantly racist and you must desist from using it here among us cracka's.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

What the hell is a "lunch-learn" bag?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Sorry, but the use of the word 'member' infers there are others like you in a group. That is blatantly racist and you must desist from using it here among us cracka's.

 

Better to be a Cracker, than a crackhead (like many of Charlie Rangle's constituents...)

[Valin]

[Pepper]

What the hell is a "lunch-learn" bag?

 

liberal speak for a working lunch?

 

By the way, the racists at WIkipedia have not updated the new and improved redefinition of brown bag yet, @WestVirginiaRebel

 

Why not create an account and update it on Wikipedia?

 

Use some snappy handle like @NCTexan or @Casino67

[pollyannaish]

:

Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.

KOMO-TV reports that the city's Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.

 

"Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo obtained by the station. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'"

In an interview with Seattle's KIRO Radio, Bronstein said the term "brown bag" has been used historically as a way to judge skin color.

"For a lot of particularly African-American community members, the phrase brown bag does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people's skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home," Bronstein said.

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Of course Twitter found the need to contribute to the list of words @ https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SeattleOffensiveWords&src=hash

 

I wonder if normal people living in Seattle are embarrassed? But then again, are there any normal people in Seattle?

Answer to your first question is yes. Second is yeas. And even those of us on the wayside are embarrassed! It's STUPID!

[Casino67]

pollyannaish, I was thinking of you when I wrote that. Hoping that you realized you were not included in disparaging remarks.

[Valin]

Answer to your first question is yes. Second is yeas. And even those of us on the wayside are embarrassed! It's STUPID!

It must be reallly wonderful to live in a city where all the other problems have been solved. Permitting the local government to concentrate their energies on problems like this.

[pollyannaish]

 

Answer to your first question is yes. Second is yeas. And even those of us on the wayside are embarrassed! It's STUPID!

It must be reallly wonderful to live in a city where all the other problems have been solved. Permitting the local government to concentrate their energies on problems like this.

Don't bait me.

 

I've been trying to keep my blood pressure down. Heh.

[Valin]

 

 

Answer to your first question is yes. Second is yeas. And even those of us on the wayside are embarrassed! It's STUPID!

It must be reallly wonderful to live in a city where all the other problems have been solved. Permitting the local government to concentrate their energies on problems like this.

 

Don't bait me.

 

I've been trying to keep my blood pressure down. Heh.

 

Politicians...Look at Me! I'm passing a law that doesn't actually do anything, is unenforceable, and deals with something 99% of the people don't care about, but I get a nice write up in the paper.