Posted on 05/13/2015 4:02:41 PM PDT by Starman417
I know, I know....horrible post title.
Apparently the PC police are out with their pitchforks and torches (actually, most Americans don't care- just the pc police hammering out their indignation on keyboards, like mine) over Senator Hatch's use of an "antiquated" term for Asia, deemed "offensive" by those looking to be offended:
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called Asia “the Orient” while speaking on the Senate floor late Tuesday -- an outdated term considered offensive to Asians.
Really? What Asians? Which Asians? I'm Oriental. A Siamese single, to be precise. I don't take offense to the term, "the Orient" or to anyone who should call me "Oriental" instead of using the current census bureau checkbox label of "Asian/Pacific Islander" (I can't wait for that one to be antiquated; or deemed no longer "politically correct").
"I believe there are honest, good people on that side of the aisle who want to make this right and make up for what happened here today," Hatch said. "And I sure hope it's so because, my gosh, to put this nation's foreign policy -- especially in the Orient in particular -- to put it on hold when we could be building relationships in these countries like never before and at the same time, spurring on international trade like never before ... It's a matter of great concern to me.Glad HuffPo chose to make mention of that. But as is typical, many don't bother to read beyond headlines. So I've been reading a lot of comments by people feigning outrage and indignation at further evidence of Republican bigotry and "old white man" ageism. Aside from Hatch and Biden's usage of an antiquated term, what about Harry Reid's characterization of President Obama's speaking pattern as "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Even though he was trying to speak in a complimentary fashion, the context in which Reid said what he said is far more egregious as far as racism goes.Hatch is not the first politician to use the term. Vice President Joe Biden called the late Singaporean president Lee Kwan Yew “the wisest man in the Orient” in a speech in September.
Remember earlier this year when the actor Benedict Cumberbatch was publicly shamed into offering a public apology after using the term "colored"? So where's the indignation over the NAACP which to this day hasn't removed/updated the "C" in its title to "get with the times" and meet the moral standards of the PC umbrage brigade?
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Too bad Hatch doesn’t deserve defending. Let him deal with what he helped create.
Asian rugs? Re-Asia my map? Freshman Asiatation?
-PJ
Hatch is a quisling sell-out. Whatever comes his way is deserved.
( I didn’t know Orient or Oriental was offensive, either)
The same PC language police who are now trying to ban ‘thug’ in reference to belligerent person(s) who try to intimidate and threaten other persons.
Didn’t Biden use this same term late last year?
Turnaround "if he were" arguments get tired pretty fast, but really, Harry Reid wouldn't get flak from the same people for saying things much worse.
Never use the words “oriental women.” That is racist and offensive. Call them “ornamental women” instead.
lol!
Oriental fifth ( Musical chord)
Orient Express (The train boss, the train)
Orientation (Not to be confused with dis-orientation)
Dis-Orientation (When they all pile into a shipping container)
Pre-orientation (When Gaia was Gaia and we all stuck together)
Cut ole Orrin some slack, he’s not kowtowing (another oriental term) to the PC police just yet is he?
Add orient to the list of banned words. For Whites.
Hate crime laws were created to criminalize anything a White says or does.
I had a person call me on that once. I replied that world history and dictionaries didn’t care what they thought on the subject and neither did I.
That person never gave me liberal grief again.
“Too bad Hatch doesn’t deserve defending. Let him deal with what he helped create.”
We have a winner!
The sooner we let people suffer the consequences of their actions, the sooner people stop being liberals.
Folks south of the border use to be Spanish.
It was Eric Estrada who said it. He called them Spanish people.
In saw this on an episode of CHIPs from the eighties the other day.
Funny how things changed. I still refer to blacks as negros.
African / American is just silly.
I would have to refer to myself as European American...my ancestors fought a bloody war to shake that off,
Dads side did anyway. Moms side left Germany during WWI probably traitors to Germany for all I know.
I think I flew on Northwest Orient Airlines in my youth.
Hatch is a scumbag. All he does is post puff pieces on facebook about his quotes being circulated in the media rescuing immigration reform.
Sounds like this created a Chinese Fire Drill. He may need to lawyer up. If it is a big enough law firm, they may need to put up a Chinese Wall.
I call my wife, who’s of Japanese descent, an “ornamental.” She’s used to it.
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