Posted on 03/27/2017 1:08:48 PM PDT by Trump20162020
It seems as if everyone in the mainstream media world is taking a fresh look at their style guides this year for some reason. (*cough*) First we saw the Associated Press preparing to twist their pronouns in strange and unusual directions to avoid offending transgender activists. Now, thanks to some sharp work at The Daily Caller, we learn that the New York Times has grown unhappy with the old list of racially insensitive terms and may be adding a few more.
A group of New York Times journalists released a list of racial terms they find bothersome Sunday.
NYTs Race/Related team included terms likeethnic, person of color and illegal immigrant among those they found slightly offensive.
John Eligon, the papers national correspondent, found ethnica troublesome term because it normalizes whiteness.
The letter reads more like something out of a debate class syllabus at a liberal arts college than a guide to modern English usage.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Once upon a time, to protect the "delicacies" of ladies, arms and legs were called "limbs", the upper classes used French terms for such "indelicate" matters as pregnancy, but freely called a spade a spade ( pun intended )and ethnics names such as "FROGS", "WOGS", etc. !
Good one! :-)
Where is my personal preference?!?
Please use: Fe, Fi, Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!
Hmmm, isn’t Gray Lady a microagression against little old ladies. I mean senior females, no no, I mean seasoned, no over a certain age, oh forget it.
What would the liberals do if confronted with bathroom doors labeled XX and XY?
Assuming they are wearing pants is sexist, and possibly racist.
It’s “illegal alien,” not “illegal immigrant.”
I take offense at the term “illegal immigrant”.
An immigrant has gone (or is going) through this country’s formal immigration process. Anyone here illegally is not, by definition, an immigrant but an alien.
Guess they were tired of repeating the same old ones they’ve been using.
Agreed 100%.
“What cringeworthy racial terms get under your skin?” ~ Eligon
‘Whitey.’ Now p*ss off ya Poofter!
I lean toward the term “melanin enthusiastic” now. Not offensive but much sillier than some of the “real” terms Progs come up with. slightly OT, but maybe that’s the solution: refuse to take them seriously. Like in that old Monty Python sketch where the brigadier comes in and says “no, no, no, sorry! Far too silly” and then ends the sketch. Start talking to progressives, wait until they get going on whatever nonsense they’re saying and then yell “No, sorry-far too silly! Let’s just end it right there, shall we?”. And then WALK AWAY! It would just knock them for a loop. Just an idea.
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Lol! That’s a keeper, if I ever get invited anywhere ; )
Just make one and wear it around for fun! :)
Ha. I just might, though I’d probably be violating someone’s safe space over here. Lol
Well, ‘Princess Bride’ does have a few scary parts AND a lot of sword-play, so maybe it’s best to let Sleeping Snowflakes Melt...or something like that! ;)
It sounds like talking points to me. What are the odds whitey hater came up with this bullshit?
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