'Master/slave' Most Politically Incorrect Phrase

Reuters ^ | Dec 3, 2004

[Semper Paratus]

Am I correct in assuming that the term "Fudgepackers" is probably out now also?

Unless your working at Scraafts.

[Steve_Seattle]

One euphemism that continues to grate on me is "partner," used to describe a homosexual lover or a concubine or a sugar daddy, e.g., "I'd lkke you to meet Bruce and his partner, Wendell."

[kinsman redeemer]

lol

[Nathan Zachary]

Not only that, Not all Africans are black. Ask Terri Kerry.

[Paradox]

There's the ole "Hard Drive", and "Floppy". When I was learning Apple Basic, I had to do alot of "peeking" and "poking". Lots of Nibbles and Bytes too...

[Steve_Seattle]

"Am I correct in assuming that the term "Fudgepackers" is probably out now also?"

Yes, along with "rump rangers" and "pickle smoochers."

[OSHA]

I always use "cable select" for just that reason.

Selected not elected!
Selected not elected!
Selected not elected!
Selected not elected!
Selected not elected!
Selected not elected!

[Nathan Zachary]

It's no longer PC to say fudgepacker. they are bum-bandits.

[Tax Government]

LA County's purchasing department has too much money and time on its hands, if it seeks to control others' language.

[Mears]

Yankee Hater is okay in my opinion-----everyone in my area(Massachusetts) had Yankee Hater hats and not a complaint was heard.

The entire thing is hysterical.

[steve in DC]

Thank goodness LORAN is already being phased out.

All those Master and Slave stations!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Someone needs to explain how "Master/Slave" is a racial term.

Right. Just about every 'race' has been enslaved at one point or another throughout history.

[wku man]

Yes...I believe "butt pirate", "rump ranger", "booty bandit" and "disease ridden Sodomite" are the preferred terms. Well, I prefer 'em, anyway.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

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Though conceptually, the DNC still enjoys the concept - especially when it comes to one of their most faithful voting blocks.

And in other news we don't like coons to be in our yard and haven't seen a buck in ages, they've all been shot.

[Joann37]

Does anyone remember when Rush got in trouble a few years ago for using the term "water buffaloes"? Supposedly this was racist. I had been using the term frequently for a huge (white) guy who ruined a remodeling job on my house, and never in a million years would have guessed that the term had anything racial connotations attached.

[highnoon]

The Global Language Monitor is actually pretty offensive to me. Are they like the fashion police for words? What's next?

[Edgerunner]

In computer terminology, "master/slave" refers to primary and secondary hard disk drives.

This is gonna blow it for Device Net (I am an Industrial Control Engineer)...
Programmable Logic Controller = Master
Any device connected to the PLC through Device Net = Slave

[JoeV1]

Someone needs to explain how "Master/Slave" is a racial term.


+++Master=white, slave=black and on another level the master/slave thing flies in the face of all persons being equal, a major plank in the lefty wacko's party talking points.

[HenryLeeII]

I noticed that referring to former NFL wide receiver Alvin Garrett as "that little spider monkey" didn't go over too well for Howard Cosell.

BTW: Why all the fuss from the Irish folks when their whiteness is called in to question? Do they have something against being non-white? That sounds like intolerance, to me... ;>)

[sully777]

I wrote an article for a journalism class that used the word crippled. We read our article aloud to hear the flow. When I read the word crippled the whole class stopped breathing. The professor condescendingly lectured me that I can't say "cripple" because I was never in that situation. How would I feel if I blah blah blah. I let him spout off a truckload of PC BS until I told him I was crippled for a couple of years after a major accident. He turned from PC to liberal pissed in a heartbeat.

I habitually used the discarded words from the NY Times Stylebook in my faux articles. I'll never understand why I received a B and C when all my work was A material HAHAHA guess I was CRIPPLED by political incorrectness.