Posted on 06/05/2015 6:41:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I suspect that somewhere, there is a top secret organization that does nothing all day but look for innovative and novel ways that society offends one group or another.
How else do you explain this?
CBS Pittsburgh:
The Port Authority is looking into bus slogans that some are calling offensive.
Officials say they’ve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, “Ziggin Zaggin,” is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur.
Are you kidding me? Backwards?
im Ritchie with the Port Authority says they will remove the messages from buses.
“… due to recent complaints about how this message appears when read backward, we have decided to remove the message from our vehicles,” he said. “This will take us several days to properly remove. We apologize to anyone who may have been offended.”
A few days ago, a driver complained after seeing the slogan on a bus in her rearview mirror. She says it spells out a racial slur when read backwards.
“In terms of the message being offensive it’s not a surprise at all. It’s a very serious and hurtful and offensive message. We felt the best thing to do was simply take it off,” Port Authority Spokesperson Jim Ritchie said.
The Port Authority says this slogan has been wrapped around nine buses since 2003. This is the first time anyone has ever complained about it. It was part of a marketing campaign that comprised of six different slogans like “Rockin’ Rollin’” and “Movin’ Groovin’.”
Let me get this straight. The messages on the bus have been in use for 12 years and someone is offended by them just now?
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Hey! Did you know that “dog” spelled backwards is “god”? Christians, Muslims and devout Jews should be offended any time the word “dog” is used in western media.
I’m offended that SOROS spelled backwards is still SOROS!
Talking with my grandad about this and he mentioned that back in the 60’s with the Beatles that some people said playing one of their songs backwards (LP’s) they heard “Satan” or some such.
I’m deeply offended that you would say some people are easily offended.
OMG! SOROS is a Palindrome!
That MUST have end-time significance./s
These days, America has become infested with maggots who go looking for things that “offend” them as soon as they get out of bed around noon time.
RE: I’m deeply offended that you would say some people are easily offended.
Hey, this can go to infinity .... I’m deeply offended that you are deeply offended at some people being easily offended.
I thought Soros spelled backwards was “douchebag”...
And “OSAMA” spelled only slightly differently is a drug-addled communist, a living terrorist who hates America more than the dead terrorist did. Any pretended difference between the two is BS.
Ping to oversensitive dyslexics
i suspect most of the “offended” can barely read forwards much less backwards.
I’m offended by the title of this article.
Who do I sue?
Yeah, but what does “palindrome” spell backwards?
It’s not “sensitivity”,
it’s assertion of supremacy.
Correction, some people go to extreme lengths to be offended by everything.
There must be nice money in being offended. It is now a profession.
I believe there is an “Anti-Destination League” which conspires to make me late or unable to reach my desired destinations. The guy at the drawbridge, for example, the one with the binoculars. “Here he comes- open the bridge!” The 31 MPH driver on the 2-lane, no passing zones road posted at 45 MPH. The little old lady ahead of me who panic stops on the on-ramp to the interstate instead of merging. I wonder where they hold their meetings?
How about being offended by this phrase: !BOJ A TEG. I’ll bet that really offends them.
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