Posted on 08/22/2015 10:01:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
1. “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” is racist. The nursery rhyme, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is under attack. Some schools and family centers in Scotland, England, and Australia have eliminated the word “black” as racist, and now refer to “rainbow sheep,” “happy sheep,” or “green sheep,” though these new adjectives make no sense at all. Stuart Chamberlain of the Oxford Sure Start Center in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, said, “Basically we have taken the equal-opportunity approach to everything we do.” A local dissenter, however, called it “Stalinist.”
2. M.A.s may be racist, postmasters too. Stephen Davis, master of Pierson College at Yale, says the word “master” in his title is severely upsetting some students and driving them off campus. He wants Pierson and Yale’s eleven other residential colleges to have “heads” rather than “masters.”
3. Liking white meat is racist. Writer Ron Rosenbaum said in Slate that racism accounts for the popularity of white-meat turkey over more flavorful dark meat. “White meat turkey has no taste,” he explained. “Despite its superior taste, dark meat has dark undertones for some. Dark meat seems to summon up ancient fears of contamination and miscegenation as opposed to the supposed superior purity of white meat.”
4. Hoop skirts are racist. After student affairs administrators met with fraternity and sorority leaders, the University of Georgia banned hoop skirts as evocations of the ante bellum South. Writing in the Washington Post, Elizabeth Boyd opined that this decision should go national: While donning a hoop skirt may not constitute a hate crime . . . make no mistake. The Southern belle performances routinely staged on campuses across the South constitute choreography of exclusion . . . young white women serve as signs of nostalgia for a bygone, segregated South and all its attendant privileges.
5. Lunch bags look racist. Elliot Bronstein of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights sent a memo to the public-affairs office banning the term “brown bag” as in brown-bag lunches.
6. Complimenting America as open and fair is racially hurtful. “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” is officially listed as a micro-aggression that the University of California wants eliminated from its classrooms. Also banned are “America is the land of opportunity,” and “America is a melting pot,” because some students may regard those ideas as controversial.
7. Libertarians are racist. In an interview, testy HBO writer-producer David Simon (The Wire, Treme) severely criticized libertarians and suggested that libertarian rhetoric about “freedom” and “liberty” is just code for racism. More P.C. Culture Feds Stop Calling ‘Midget Raisins’ ‘Midget Raisins’ Because ‘Midget’ Is Offensive No Chicken for You! ‘My Truth,’ They Say
8. Climate change advances racism. Best-selling Canadian author Naomi Klein told the Guardian, “You see that in Australia where the treatment of migrants is a profound moral crisis. It’s clear that as sea levels rise this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme.”
9. Banning sagging pants is racist. NRO’s Katherine Timpf reported that Henderson State University in Arkansas had banned sagging pants, but the sign announcing the ban came down in two days after students protested. “Those students wanting the sign taken down because they say sagging pants are culturally associated with African Americans,” said student Daisha Haggans.
10. If too many white males are in your class, that’s racist. The Harvard “Voices of Diversity” project interviewed 200 students at four U.S. colleges and found that racist and sexist “micro-aggressions” — subtle but hurtful digs — are a serious problem. Examples: finding that most of the people in your class are white males, other students rolling their eyes when you speak, and “a slight raising of the eyebrows or eyes following you in the dining hall.”
Athletic tape colored “flesh” - racist.
Barbie - racist.
Expecting to be considered “equal” while demanding everyone play by ONLY your rules is racist!!
Harvard is destroying its brand. Who will respect a Harvard education when they realize it means sitting around picking lint out of your navel?
Great find.
We’ve got to expose these racists.
Suburbs - racist
Excellent example.
The more you look, the more you find it.
I was watching the syndicated TV show, “The Gong Show”,’The unknown comic’, the fellow with the brown bag on his head, appeared doing his schtick.
A commercial came on, advertising the Robert Conrad show, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’, about Marine aviators in the Pacific during WW2. (IIRC, the real Marine flying unit had NO minority aviators.)
Then a following commercial appeared, advertising “PORK, THE OTHER WHITE MEAT!”
That was followed by an ad for Louisiana State University, showing one of the students’ functions, where all the ladies were wearing their antebellum hoop skirt dresses and finery.
(I know, a lot of commercials!)
That was followed by an ad for The Men’s Wearhouse, with a diverse group of nonteen male models in tailored suits .. no baggy pants, there.
The show came back on, but it wasn’t ‘Mean Gene The Dancing Machin’, so i picked up my copy of Writer’s Digest, and noticed quite a few advertisements from various colleges, expounding as to how you could obtain your master’s in Arts degree, through their program. (I’ve been writing since the age of 8, and have been published, and all without a mater’s degree, TYVM!)
Lastly, as a half-breed Mojave, senior citizen, and a Libertarian, Life in America can be fair, if you work at it, and do NOT sit on the stoop for that politician to bus you to the election hall.
(Ende)
Asinine, I think, is more accurate.
if the worst thing that happen in your life is that someone called you a name, consider yourself greatly blessed. Give me a break!
There is a sub-culture that came out of the 60’s that pushes the idea that you have to be injured and mad at something.
black coffee is racist.
Squaw Valley is bigoted against American Indians.
Gotta change the name.
Black holes
The way to get ahead is to work hard
I got in trouble when I asked the pharmacist about getting rid of chiggers. He said I had to call them chigroes! :/
“The ironies are:
* whites are allowing this to happen, despite having a demographic majority; it is akin to the dhimmis (non-Muslims) in Shariah law becoming cheerleaders for the system, praising their second class status.”
Both words have seven letters. By suitable transposition cyphers we can convert both words into the cyphertext "slavery" and vice versa. Now you can see the connection very clearly.
"freedom" = "slavery" = "liberty"
When asked how I want my coffee, I say, ‘Black, like my ink pen!’ Pretty fun to watch the evolving faces...
That’s what Ian Fleming called Dr. No’s army of thugs, racial mix of Chinese and Negros. Only in the novel by that name.
I just taught it to about 40 kids at a campground. They loved it, of course. (Leadbelly is the best.)
Picnics may be racist. But picnickers are definitely racist.
As well as ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’.
There is a Negro Mountain in western Maryland. I wonder how long until they force a name change there.
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