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The Gray Lady builds a new list of offensive racial terms
HotAir ^ | March 27, 2017 | Jazz Shaw

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.

NYT’s Race/Related team included terms like”ethnic,” person of color” and “illegal immigrant” among those they found slightly offensive.

John Eligon, the paper’s national correspondent, found “ethnic”a 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 ...


TOPICS: Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; media; nyt; nyts; offensiveracialterms; racialterms; racism
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To: Trump20162020
Since the "old gray lady" is not happy with the most "civil" terms, perhaps we should all unearth and begin to reuse very old, once used, far worse terms for people.

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. !

21 posted on 03/27/2017 1:37:11 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: budj

Good one! :-)


22 posted on 03/27/2017 1:37:52 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Trump20162020

Where is my personal preference?!?

Please use: Fe, Fi, Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!


23 posted on 03/27/2017 1:38:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Trump20162020

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.


24 posted on 03/27/2017 1:38:18 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: MarvinStinson
Here's Eligon's latest tweet, made just a few minutes ago:

"Are you ethnic? Exotic? Urban? What cringeworthy racial terms get under your skin?"

25 posted on 03/27/2017 1:39:57 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Mr. Douglas

What would the liberals do if confronted with bathroom doors labeled XX and XY?


Pee their pants?


Assuming they are wearing pants is sexist, and possibly racist.


26 posted on 03/27/2017 1:40:23 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Trump20162020

It’s “illegal alien,” not “illegal immigrant.”


27 posted on 03/27/2017 1:41:23 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Trump20162020

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.


28 posted on 03/27/2017 1:46:15 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: Trump20162020

Guess they were tired of repeating the same old ones they’ve been using.


29 posted on 03/27/2017 1:48:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: Trump20162020
I've done this more times than I can remember, when forced to wear one of these:
30 posted on 03/27/2017 1:49:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Bob

Agreed 100%.


31 posted on 03/27/2017 1:49:56 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Trump20162020

“What cringeworthy racial terms get under your skin?” ~ Eligon

‘Whitey.’ Now p*ss off ya Poofter!


32 posted on 03/27/2017 1:51:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Williams

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.

CC


33 posted on 03/27/2017 1:54:13 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Lol! That’s a keeper, if I ever get invited anywhere ; )


34 posted on 03/27/2017 1:57:48 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: broken_clock

Just make one and wear it around for fun! :)


35 posted on 03/27/2017 2:00:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: PGR88
Your post reminded me of this from South Park when everyone was offended by Christmas.
36 posted on 03/27/2017 2:03:36 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trump20162020
The Gray Lady builds a new list of offensive racial terms...ah - I see what the problem is here - the folks at the "Gray Lady" evidently have the mistaken notion that they have the obligation, the skill and the right to tell the rest of us how we should believe and think - life must be difficult for them......
37 posted on 03/27/2017 2:03:51 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ha. I just might, though I’d probably be violating someone’s safe space over here. Lol


38 posted on 03/27/2017 2:03:56 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: broken_clock

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! ;)


39 posted on 03/27/2017 2:06:03 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: MarvinStinson

It sounds like talking points to me. What are the odds whitey hater came up with this bullshit?


40 posted on 03/27/2017 2:07:54 PM PDT by Trillian
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