[ConservativeStatement]

John Lennon said "Woman is the..." Ah, forget it.

[South40]

[OrangeHoof]

Some of my best friends are niggardly.

[dayglored]

In other news, white folks are up in arms because a black waiter, serving soup to a table of whites, offered one of the men a small soup biscuit, saying, "And you... cracker?"

The world has gone mad.

[cynwoody]

[Kickass Conservative]

Conservatives hope people are smart, but Liberals know people are stupid.

Remember, it's your fault when someone else is ignorant.

This country is soooo screwed.

[Dallas59]

Black holes are racist too.

[Fresh Wind]

He filed a complaint saying a counselor called him "n----- dumb" in a June meeting...

Niggardly dumb? That makes no sense.

Someone is lying.

[TSgt]

Call someone colored and see what happens.

Yes we have The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I once had a white co-worker who was from South Africa. He used to tell everyone he was African-American. LOL!

[Do Be]

I think it depends on usage.

For example, if you were to say, “Zero is niggardly,” then it is a perfectly acceptable word.

[Sooth2222]

On Aug. 15, the county fired counseling supervisor Eron Tworetzky, a 13-year employee at the Broward Addiction Recovery Center (BARC), for uttering the offensive comments. His co-worker, Gail Suskind-Assidon, was suspended a week without pay for failing to immediately report the incident to her superiors.

The workers are appealing, and the matter might be headed to arbitration.

"It's Kafkaesque," said Sam Fields, Suskind-Assidon's attorney. "How is she supposed to report something that isn't an offense?"

Tworetzky disputes the county report, but declined further comment.

Suskind-Assidon and Fields said that at an appeals hearing last week, county official Tom Hutka said "niggardly" was a word that could be misconstrued and he "wouldn't use it."

As a writer, I'd never use it either. Given its similarity to the combustible N-word, it could only lead to confusion and problems. But making it a firing offense seems over the top.

Suskind-Assidon said she called Tworetzky into the meeting with the substance-abuse client after she sensed the client was "holding back" in his recovery efforts.

According to Suskind-Assidon, Tworetzky told the client he was being "niggardly" about opening up. The client took offense. She said Tworetzky explained it and they later looked it up in the dictionary.

It's not a word I use in every day conversation, but my name is not "Eron Tworetzky", either.

[RightFighter]

My eighth-grade English teacher, Ms. Porges, was reprimanded for using the word “niggardly” in class. That was 27 years ago.

[aruanan]

Someone is getting fired because a drug-addled “client” is so illiterate that he or she can’t understand standard English?

[Roccus]

Not the first time this has happened

http://articles.cnn.com/1999-02-04/us/9902_04_dc.word.flap_1_racial-epithet-marion-barry-barry-administration?_s=PM:US

[Clint N. Suhks]

Williams Aide Resigns in Language Dispute