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Joe Biden Refers to Asia as the "Orient"
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| September 17, 2014
| Eddie Scarry
Posted on 09/17/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Biggirl
Just hours after apologizing for using what was perceived as an anti-Semitic slur, Vice President Joe Biden deployed another term Wednesday that some might consider ethnically offensive.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asians; biden; joebiden; plugs; yew
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To: Biggirl
I think the offendocrats have determined that using Oriental to describe a person is offensive, but I don't believe it is offensive to refer to Asia as such.
It's just a bit archaic. Like Biden.
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:56:59 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Celtic Conservative
ROFL you are probably the only person here who knows about that proper juxtaposition.
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:57:08 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Biggirl
Again, the whining of the perpetually offended is annoying.
These people should not be ignored, or pandered to.
They should be mocked and ridiculed. They act like whiny babies (worse, actually) but pretend to be adults.
Makes me want to wear a Washington Redskins shirt, have breakfast at Sambo’s, and take a ride on the Orient Express.
To: Biggirl
Biden has a different slant on things.
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:58:28 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
They saw Asia, knew about it, and called it East of them. Then Europe became West.
As far as Orient, let us not forget Europe is also the Occident.
I wouldn’t mind being called occidental, myself. A bit strange, maybe, but it would be OK.
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:59:11 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: forgotten man
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:59:32 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: NorthMountain
Thanks for reminding me - I need to buy a Redskins jersey! Ensure it has the Indian (gasp!) and the full name written out.
BTW, is “jersey” offensive to the people who live in those areas? Do they despise their region being used to describe shirts?
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:02:04 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
It's an odd thing, though. "Western Civilization." West of whom?
West of the East?
The Western part of the Eurasian continent maybe.
Followed by America which is even more West.
And yes its true that most nations consider themselves in the middle, just look at how the Brits declared the zero meridian to go straight through London, Greenwich Observatory if you are pedantic, which puts most of Europe in the Eastern hemisphere.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:04:52 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Celtic Conservative
He didn’t do it on purpose. It was occidental.
I think it was on porpoise.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:05:16 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
To: Biggirl
One of the very rare occasions when Crazy Uncle Joe is technically correct, and they still rim him apart.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:07:49 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Mrs. Don-o
That would be West of the Middle East?
Western Society or Western Civilization studies covered the History, Philosophy, and Religion of the areas to the West of what is now called Israel (Judaism). Christianity as well as Greek and Roman influence on the thinking of our “Western World”.
Geographically, “West” would be to the West of the Prime Meridian or 0 degrees Longitude, which extends from the North Pole through Greenwich, England to the South Pole. “East” would be East of “0” to the 180 degrees Longitude.
Of course we all knew that.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:10:33 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Mrs. Don-o
PS...I hate it when I am called an “Occidental” HA HA!
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:12:11 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Biggirl
Did he say that Orientals are clean and articulate?
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:27:59 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: Biggirl
so now that we know “orient” is out, then one can not orient them self when lost nor go to an orientation?
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:36:01 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Straight. Since 1950.)
To: P-Marlowe
That’s the first time I ever heard that Orient is now a slur. When did that happen?
About the time Liberals convinced the TV stations to quit running old Charlie Chan movies.
To: the OlLine Rebel
Original lyrics of “Hail to the Redskins”:
Hail to the Redskins!
Hail Victory!
Braves on the Warpath!
Fight for old Dixie!
Run or pass and score — we want a lot more!
Scalp ‘em, swamp ‘em — We will take ‘em big score
Read ‘em, weep ‘em, touchdown - we want heap more
Fight on, Fight on — ‘Till you have won
Sons of Wash-ing-ton. Rah!, Rah!, Rah!
To: Biggirl
Biden puts the ‘Dip’ in ‘Dipchit’.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:58:07 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
To: the OlLine Rebel
I wouldn’t mind being called occidental, myself. I'm quite proud to be called that.
To: Old Yeller
Maybe it was a fluke, or he did it just for the halibut. I’m praying to cod he doesn’t keep making these mistakes like that other vlce president Al B. Core. Next thing you know he’ll go off the deep end and Obama will have flex his mussels and reel him in. Maybe it’s time Biden went back to his brain sturgeon. It would help us all if he would just clam up.
Your chum,
CC
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posted on
09/17/2014 2:06:11 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: the OlLine Rebel
I read lots of old history books, and have picked up on some of the more archaic usages. Glad somebody caught it.
CC
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posted on
09/17/2014 2:09:50 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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