WHO will take their part?? who's to stand up for them?
this is an OUTRAGE an Atrocity
Posted on 08/01/2013 8:55:24 PM PDT by Stoat
SEATTLE - An internal memo at Seattle City Hall is causing quite a stir. It suggests government workers no longer use the terms "citizen," or "brown bag."
According to the Office for Civil Rights, the terms are potentially offensive and other words should be used.
"Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'" Bronstein wrote.
The Office of Civil Rights says Seattle serves all residents, whether they're United States citizens or not.
And while city leaders publicize "brown bag" lunch meetings as a way to designate a bring-your-own lunch time event, the term has a sorted history.
"It used to be a way people could judge skin color," Bronstein said in a phone interview.
Does the public find it offensive? Most people agree it's not.
But the City of Seattle isn't alone. State lawmakers have voted to remove gender specific words in official records.
Freshman are now "first-years," journeymen are "journey-level," and penmanship is simply "handwriting."
To offend or not to offend, turns out to be a very sensitive question.
So what is a person supposed to say instead of brown bag? According to the memo, people should try "lunch-and-learn" or "sack lunch."
Barking, hysterical, politically-correct madness ping.
Control the language and make the word ‘citizen’ mean something bad. Then make the concept bad. Then open the one world borders.
Obvious.
So now we’re supposed to be offended by citizen and brown bag lunch?
Who exactly is offended by these terms? Radical liberal types?
Do we have to kowtow to every whim of radical liberal types, to prove we’re not racist/sexist/xenophobic and all that ??????
I retired (from the City of Seattle) just in time.
I don’t think anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances, considered “brown-bag” offensive. They were called “brown-bag” lunches because lunch bags have traditionally been - uh - brown.
this is satire, right?
abso-freaking-lutely nuts!
With all of my heart and with every fiber of my being, I sincerely wish that it was.
"sigh"
Does this mean Morgan Freeman can’t talk about black holes anymore?
Apparently there are no editors at KOMO to correct their dumb reporters.
“....the term has a sorted history”
Perhaps they meant “sordid”?
First they have to learn the language, then they can control it. Next thing you know, they’ll think “queer” doesn’t mean “weird” or “government investment” doesn’t mean “taxes”.
How pathetic! I used to take my lunch to school in brown paper bags for years. What’s next, are they going to demand that paper bag manufacturers only make White paper bags? Now that would be racist because we all no the only color that is truly racist is White!
What can brown do for you?
sorted....is NEW SCHOOL... know wut Im sayin
Sordid is OLD SCHOOL
we AWL live in a Post Rachel Jeantel World now!
Why do blacks insist on being called blacks? After all, there are black magic and black arts and black moods and black humor and black ice, and they’re all considered bad. Shouldn’t “black” be banned?
Great minds think alike - see my previous post.
What! I believe the just barely literate reporter means a sordid history. Even so, in my world, the brown bag lunch is a completely innocuous and even boring concept and hardly sordid. (Unless it involves a remote wilderness area, a bottle of something requiring proof-of-age and my terribly attractive contractor.)
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