Posted on 06/24/2014 2:15:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Who cares about the Redskins? Probably not first lady Michelle Obama, who turned her sights on insulting the Romani minority community Monday.
While describing her struggles as a working mother, the usually politically correct first lady used the racial slur, gypped.
“The first thing I tried to do, which was a mistake, was that I tried the part-time thing… I realized I was getting gypped on that front,” Obama told ABC’s Robin Roberts at the White House Summit on Working Families. “What happened was I got a part-time salary but worked full time.”
The term “gypped” is a racial slur deriving from the word “gypsy,” a slur for the Roma. The slur refers to the act of defrauding or robbing through practices such as swindling or cheating. The correct usage of the term is most certainly not synonymous to “slighted or “cut short.”
Defenders of Romani point out that the abbreviation, “gyp,” is nothing more than a callous slur used by the culturally insensitive. Similar slurs to “gypped” include “Jewed down” or calling someone an “Indian giver.”
All offensive. Definitely not something that the first lady of the United States of America should be saying in interviews.
But it’s not entirely Michelle’s fault. It seems as though she borrowed the offensive colloquialism from her husband, President Barack Obama. In 2009, at a town hall meeting in Allentown, Penn., Obama said that he was seeking to regulate health insurance companies to make sure that people don’t get “gypped.”
Ouch. When will the first couple clean up their language? It’s amazing not amazing at all that no one in their own party has called them out on it yet.
“Not wanting to side with the Moose, but this is silly.”
Yes, it is.
don’t have to be grasping at straws to find legit problems with the “O’s” - I would hope our side wouldn’t use such small potatoes stuff - sounds like a DU...and denigrates what we say when it IS legit.
This just plays into their hands.
Just about any “criticism” of these criminal degenerates is “legit”. They should be in prison, then exiled.
:: Next, she’ll say “Hillary, that honky.” ::
Not really. Hillary comes from Illinoios and Arkansas; she’s a “cracker”.
I bet she usually refers to Hitlery as “that -itch”.
There were movies made that used the ‘N’ word too - doesn’t make it acceptable.
Do you have a cite for this? My understanding is that Native Americans had no concept of property rights due to the collectivist nature of their cultures.
Give me a break. This article is simply stupid.
It is true. An Indian giver refers to a white man who repeatedly cheated Indians by giving them something by way of a treaty and then taking it back. It also doesn’t have any meaning in the opposite way because Indians at that time never had anything substantial to give away. I’m surprised you didn’t know that.
A citation is customarily provided for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the subject. You don’t know me, so your “surprise” is phony.
America is getting gypped...and that’s saying it nicely.
I’ve seen you post often enough to know you are a person with knowledge. So I am surprised you didn’t know this.
The correct term is Saltine-American
after so called palastinians, gypsys are the most worthless group of individuals on the planet. and i don’t care if that is politically incorrect.
Can Richard Roundtree be “Shafted”?
I agree. I'm no fan of hers, but this is just ridiculous.
“Do you have a cite for this? My understanding is that Native Americans had no concept of property rights due to the collectivist nature of their cultures.”
Guess I didn’t clearly make my point. The slur is a derogatory statement against the integrity of whites. Meaning whites did not keep their promises made to Indians. Hence, “Indian Giver” meaning whites give but then turn around and take back what they gave. History books are full of broken promises made by whites to Indians and then later broken. So, consequently, when the term was subsequently used it meant someone made a promise but did not honor it - as whites did to Indians. Hope I clarified :)
or ethnic?
Dang fingers.
Didnt this beyotch say that kids should snitch on their racially/ethnically insensative families?
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