Posted on 03/06/2024 4:17:02 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
St. Louis TV station KMOV under fire after anchor uses ‘outdated’ racial term on air
A St. Louis television station is under fire after an anchor “mistakenly” described minority homeowners using an “outdated, offensive and racist” term.
Television station KMOV issued an apology for using the term on Feb. 26 while previewing a story about racial bias on home appraisals, according to reports.
“Tonight, colored homeowners are sounding the alarm when it comes to undervalued home appraisals,” anchor Cory Stark, who is white, said on air.
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Colored = RACIST!!!!
In the future will we get alerts in the mail when a current acceptable term is deemd “outdated, offensive and racist”??
Somebody tell the NAACP.
Or as Rush called them, the NAALCP.
Ironically, they sure scream for the NAACP in a hurry.
Descriptive terms are a constantly moving goalpost, because there’s always some idiot out there looking to feel offended about something. On top of that, once the descriptive term starts getting used in a perjorative manner, because some members of the group it describes get out of control, that iteration of the term will become outdated.
Not to mention the double-standard around some of those descriptive terms.
What’s the big deal? We all have earth-tone colored skin. As a matter fact, I’m looking to replace the carpeting in my living room with a retro-chocolate “Ray Nagin” shag.
One hundred years ago mortgages were typically limited to 50% of property value.
A number of factors can lower urban housing values:
1. the school system
2. crime
3. the percentage of units in the area needing repairs and modernization
4. lifestyle factors such as shopping
5. property tax
6. pension funding gaps
As has long been said: location, location, location
The term “colored people” is racist. Wow ,that’s news to me.
JD Sosnoff, KMOV vice president and general manager, and Stark tried to do damage control over the apparent slip-up as criticism grew over the cringe remark.
“It was in an original script as ‘homeowners of color’ and was inadvertently changed and mistakenly read on air,” Sosnoff said,
This just illustrates how few real journalists are on the air these days. Instead, they hire someone who looks good on camera, and tell them to read word for word whatever is on the teleprompter in front of them. A real journalist would have thought "that can't be right" and have adjusted his reporting accordingly.
The complaining organization is an exclusionary race based group.
Public displays of anger can lower property value.
The public use of foul language can lower property value.
The reality is, there is no fixed “preferred” term for any group of people.
The late Justice Scalia said something like “I’m an American, not Italian-American.”
I know black people who still prefer black, while others prefer African-American.
I haven’t heard anyone prefer to be called “colored.” Yet, in Human Resources, the phrase “People of Color” and “Women of Color” is on the ascent. This is a wide net, including people who may be from Taiwan, China, India, South or Central America, or are black.
Even in the LGBT etc arena, it’s a mess. There are gays who don’t want anything to do with trans, and there is now TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminism or feminist, a term used to describe women who oppose trans people).
And now, white people are jumping into the fray. Everyone wants a label or a ribbon to put on their lapel. Oy vey.
Most of the time, if I ask someone what they want to be called, they say Bob or Mary.
The Civil War Between Nouns and Participles?
People of Color (noun - OK).
Colored (participle - not OK) People.
where’s race baiter Al Sharpton when you need him?
“exclusionary”
They’ll happily take money from guilt-tripped Caucasians.
"People of fat" - acceptable
Pickup trucks can lower property value.
Civil war flags can lower property value.
“colored”
Horror of horrors!
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