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State Department: 'Hold down the fort,' other common phrases could be offensive
foxnews.com ^ | 8/31/12 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 08/31/2012 5:36:31 AM PDT by onlylewis

Watch your mouth -- everyday phrases like "hold down the fort" and "rule of thumb" are potentially offensive bombshells. At least according to the State Department.

Chief Diversity Officer John Robinson penned a column in the department's latest edition of "State Magazine" advising readers on some rather obscure Ps and Qs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: diversity; dumbass; freespeech; governmnet; pc
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"Hold Down The Fort"

How about "bare face lie"

Nope that's not on the list because that would hit his boss obama.

"Run amok" , now that would fit just perfect in the obama admin.

"Pass the buck" now there is another good one for the el presidente.

I have one last offensive phrase for the obama admin "Turn a blind eye"

Because he turns away from all the destruction his class/race warfare is causing.

1 posted on 08/31/2012 5:36:36 AM PDT by onlylewis
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To: onlylewis

>> Chief Diversity Officer John Robinson

Now there’s a waste of taxpayer money... I wonder how much we’ll save when Romney fires this joker.


2 posted on 08/31/2012 5:40:12 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: onlylewis

You know when someone has “diversity” in their title, they are getting paid money for doing nothing useful.


3 posted on 08/31/2012 5:41:22 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: onlylewis

“Day late and a dollar short” offends Robert Reicchhhhhh.


4 posted on 08/31/2012 5:43:43 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: onlylewis

“Chief Diversity Officer”

I’ll bet he is a real popular guy at work and on the cocktail circuit

Oh wait, can we say “cock”? Or “tail”? Won’t that offend the wymyn?

Isn’t “chief” an ethnically sensitive term to the red man?
And “officer” ......? Sounds entirely too military and we should remember how much Hillary and her birkenstock staffers loathe the mlitary


5 posted on 08/31/2012 5:46:02 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: silverleaf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmj9HnbdhTc&feature=related


6 posted on 08/31/2012 5:47:34 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: beaversmom

“You know when someone has “diversity” in their title, they are getting paid money for doing nothing useful.”

It should read,”...for doing something harmful”.


7 posted on 08/31/2012 5:48:20 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: onlylewis

I believe the “rule of thumb” was actually a measurement used by medieval craftsmen. The use of rule of thumb as illustrated here has the stench of urban legend akin to the fallacy that was rife for some years that assaults on women increased during halftime on Super Bowl Sunday. Of course if I was the Chief Diversity officer of Foggy Bottom I’d have to come up with some way to justify my phony-baloney job!


8 posted on 08/31/2012 5:50:49 AM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: TurboZamboni

Chief Diversity Officer ...at the State Department.

That says it all.


9 posted on 08/31/2012 5:51:00 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: onlylewis
okay Mr Diversity moron, are these sayings 'offensive'?
10 posted on 08/31/2012 5:52:18 AM PDT by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: onlylewis
The left is trying to steal our language again.
Offended by a common phrase that could sometime way back have a possible less-than-pristine origin?

Is this offensive: TOUGH!

11 posted on 08/31/2012 5:54:04 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: LibsRJerks

State Department Using ‘Diversity Visas’ to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-department-using-diversity-visas-encourage-immigration-us-terror-ridden-yemen

nobody said they were smart, just diverse.


12 posted on 08/31/2012 5:54:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: beaversmom

One of my reservists is the Director of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion for a Federal Agency. I have trouble not rolling my eyes whenever I read her title. Funny thing is, she’s eminently competent and a great JAG.


13 posted on 08/31/2012 5:58:02 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: onlylewis
Here is one for the whole liberal regime!

DUMB AS A SACK OF ROCKS!!

14 posted on 08/31/2012 5:58:22 AM PDT by onlylewis (libs want a two class system, one rich one poor)
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To: Nervous Tick

Personally I find any official govt use of the word “Diversity” offensive!


15 posted on 08/31/2012 5:59:41 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Barack 0b0tt0my!)
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To: onlylewis
We need to run people like this dweeb out of the Country.

Dead serious...

16 posted on 08/31/2012 5:59:50 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: silverleaf
Isn’t “chief” an ethnically sensitive term to the red man?

No, but "red man" or "redskin" is. Which is odd because American Indians don't have red skin....Well, they didn't until they painted themselves with red war paint.

17 posted on 08/31/2012 6:00:36 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: onlylewis
What a bunch of morons. The idea that “rule of thumb” is sexist was debunked years ago. Its from a training manual for swordsmen from the 1600s about how to estimate and has nothing to do with how you can beat your wife.

While we're on the subject. “State” Department is racist. State — as in States Rights — as in Confederacy — as in Slavery!!!!!!

18 posted on 08/31/2012 6:03:01 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: onlylewis
I find the phrase/title "chief diversity officer" offensive in and of itself.

It implies that people like me, average white males, are insensitive.

It implies a hierarchical organization that will through official enforcement actions penalize me for a real or even just perceived lack of diversity.

I cannot help being the race I am. I cannot (modern medical techniques aside) help being my gender.

The very notion of a "chief diversity officer" is therefore through its implied stereotyping deeply offensive and hurtful to average white guys.

Not satire.

19 posted on 08/31/2012 6:04:05 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Condor51

Goal is to create a mine field out there where heterosexual white people are uneasy and unsure. Anything they say or do may offend anyone - and offended is according to how whatever privileged minority perceives it.


20 posted on 08/31/2012 6:05:07 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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