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Biden’s on a Roll: Calls Asia ‘the Orient’
National Review Online ^
| September 17, 2014
| Andrew Johnson
Posted on 09/17/2014 12:57:24 PM PDT by C19fan
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Is Biden off his meds?
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posted on
09/17/2014 12:57:24 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
There’s no reason the Orient should be an offensive term.
It simply means the east and refers to East Asia.
But in the insane climate, it’s somehow made to be an offensive term.
But there are double standards for Dems.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:00:38 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
To: C19fan
That's offensive? I still use the term “oriental” to refer to someone of Asian background if I don't know specifically where they are from (sort of like European). Never knew even that is considered offensive now. So what IS the politically correct term for someone from Asia if you don't specifically know what country they are from?
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: ifinnegan
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:04:20 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: ifinnegan
I agree. Biden is an incurable jerk. But what on earth is wrong with calling it “the Orient”?
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:04:36 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: ifinnegan
Rules for Radicals: Make the other side live up to their own rules.
To: C19fan
The Orient is the Orient. It is what it is.
The PC police can KMA.
I am with Biden on this one
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:05:44 PM PDT
by
rogator
To: C19fan
a guy named Lee Kuan Yew??
This 'guy' has done more for the world than any Democrat since Harry Truman.
To: C19fan
Drinking again no doubt.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:06:53 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: C19fan
As much as I can’t stand “Slow Joe”, I am with him, on this one. None of the native born Asians, nor the older Americans of Asian heritage, that I know, have a problem with “Orient”, or “Oriental”. Some of the younger ones, of course, gripe about it, they have adopted a “victicrat” mentality (thank you, Larry Elder). This kind of stuff makes me ill....
To: apillar
So what IS the politically correct term for someone from Asia if you don't specifically know what country they are from?
Asian.
To: C19fan
I agree with Biden. He deserves to be correct at least twice in one day.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:08:20 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:09:09 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:10:40 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: fishtank
Places and things are Oriental. People are Asian.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:11:02 PM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: apillar
So what IS the politically correct term for someone from Asia if you don't specifically know what country they are from? "Furriner".
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:18:12 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: ifinnegan
“Theres no reason the Orient should be an offensive term.
It simply means the east and refers to East Asia.”
I completely agree. However, it’s also been a misnomer since 1492 (as has the term “the Occident”). If you live on the west coast of N. America, you get to the “Orient”, by traveling west. In fact, the shortest distance by air, between Washington D.C. and Japan, or most of China requires heading west. Perhaps Biden meant to say “the Occident”.
Oh, and why isn’t “Occidental” considered offensive?
To: ifinnegan
>>Theres no reason the Orient should be an offensive term.
It simply means the east and refers to East Asia.<<
I never understood that either. Why “Asian” is preferable is lost to antiquity...
Even my Oriental friends don’t understand it.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:21:39 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Found this at the Daily Mail (UK)
Joe Biden under fire from Jewish groups for using word 'Shylock' during speech about money lending
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:22:33 PM PDT
by
mware
To: C19fan
I’ll side with Biden on this one, there’s nothing wrong with the term “Orient” or “Oriental”.
P!ss on political correctness.
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posted on
09/17/2014 1:23:08 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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