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Obama signs measure striking 'oriental' and 'negro' from federal law
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Posted on 05/20/2016 2:15:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: chajin
I saw what you did there. :)
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posted on
05/20/2016 4:43:40 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
05/20/2016 4:46:50 PM PDT
by
Jed Eckert
(The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem)
To: Steve_Seattle
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posted on
05/20/2016 4:54:33 PM PDT
by
Jed Eckert
(The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem)
To: JediJones
I’m not sure why you bothered to post that. Maybe you should post it at DU.
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posted on
05/20/2016 4:56:15 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: BuffaloJack
Asia was originally a district in the western part of Asia Minor. That is still its meaning in Acts 2.9. So it is understandable that Armenians, Scythians, Mongolians, Indians, Chinese, Indo-Chinese, and others would not feel that it applies to them.
Oriental comes from Latin oriens, "rising," as in the sunrise. There is a period of archaic Greek art when they were imitating styles from the Ancient Near East--that is called the Orientalizing period. They weren't copying Chinese pots.
To: chajin
To: Sub-Driver
President Obama has signed legislation striking outdated racial terms such as Oriental and Negro from federal laws. Book burning one word at a time.
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posted on
05/20/2016 5:49:59 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
To: Sub-Driver
Anything to foment victimhood and division that comes to their minds is what they will go with.
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posted on
05/20/2016 6:05:09 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
To: Sub-Driver
The pc Communist moron. Negro is less derogatory than black and should be used as a description instead of the latter. The term
african american is just plain ridiculous. Is Sidney Potier, who is West Indian, an african american? Or Gen. Colin Powell for that matter?
We should use Negro and Oriental whenever we can get away with it. If only to oppose this destruction of our language by these kitsch marxists!
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posted on
05/20/2016 6:53:41 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
To: GOPmember
“Personally, I was happy to see Obama nip this in the bud.”
I think it would be easy to find a chink in his armor.
To: morphing libertarian
3 races: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid
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posted on
05/21/2016 12:42:29 AM PDT
by
deks
To: elpadre
“Oriental” is evil because it is based on a “Euro-centric” worldview (they are only “eastern” if you’re looking at it from the west).
Negro is just Spanish for “black”; probably too close to the word “nigger” for some.
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posted on
05/21/2016 3:47:50 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: ThomasThomas
Things are Oriental. People are Asian. The PC split happened sometime in the 70s or 80s as I recall. When I was a kid, everything was Oriental.
To: kearnyirish2
I know - but I, and others have used the words forever and have never considered them in a negative sense.
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posted on
05/21/2016 5:12:26 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
To: deks
Thank you. I will now refer to black folks as Negroid.
To: Rio; LucyT; Arthur Wildfire! March
Thanks for those links at post 21
See link below to short summary of pertinent part of HR 8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432797/posts?page=8#8
Since these terms are removed, it would make sense that we are all equal under the law and that any preference to minority groups for grants or other perks would be null and void. / sarc
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