Posted on 08/01/2013 8:55:24 PM PDT by Stoat
SEATTLE - An internal memo at Seattle City Hall is causing quite a stir. It suggests government workers no longer use the terms "citizen," or "brown bag."
According to the Office for Civil Rights, the terms are potentially offensive and other words should be used.
"Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo. "For 'citizens,' how about 'residents?'" Bronstein wrote.
The Office of Civil Rights says Seattle serves all residents, whether they're United States citizens or not.
And while city leaders publicize "brown bag" lunch meetings as a way to designate a bring-your-own lunch time event, the term has a sorted history.
"It used to be a way people could judge skin color," Bronstein said in a phone interview.
Does the public find it offensive? Most people agree it's not.
But the City of Seattle isn't alone. State lawmakers have voted to remove gender specific words in official records.
Freshman are now "first-years," journeymen are "journey-level," and penmanship is simply "handwriting."
To offend or not to offend, turns out to be a very sensitive question.
So what is a person supposed to say instead of brown bag? According to the memo, people should try "lunch-and-learn" or "sack lunch."
That means "Brown" comes after Aquamarine Bags and before Cerulean Bags and Dandelion Bags. I need to hear from the Aquamarine, Cerulean and Dandelion native peoples before passing judgement on the Browns.
A man named "Brown" once worked for me. Was I being insensitive to the brown citizens peoples by adding him to my payroll? Was he mocking them?
Life used to be so easy.
seattle sounds as insane as san fransicko
But "lunch and learn" implies that they should be seeking learning from you. That is ethnocentric. You should never imply that you know more then anyone else especially if they come from a different culture.
And "sack lunch"? Even worse. To give someone the sack used to mean to fire them. You are being offensive to the differently employed.
I had a friend in college who was blind. He once (as a point of satire) petitioned the college to ban hurtful sayings such as; “look at it this way”, “can’t you see?” and “picture this”.
They kicked the door open...should any pol with balls seize on it...to ask if citizenship has meaning to anyone anymore.
Most would say it does. And that means these folks are in deep poop. We ain’t ready to go that far yet in the name of getting along and feelgood BS despite their best efforts. As Rush says, they ALWAYS overreach.
Now to find a pol with balls.
u no it
Typically, it’s fun to laugh at the stupidity of Liberal political correctness. Not distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens and treating actual American citizenship as something that must be deemphasized is scary. It shows where the Left wants to head.
"It used to be a way people could judge skin color," Bronstein said in a phone interview.
Morons. The term is 'sordid' not 'sorted' and no one on the face of the planet ever associated skin color with the phrase "brown bag" until this complete idiot, Bronstein, pulled that out of his fat 0bama.
Diogenes is predisposed.....
that means the rest of us have to start making some DEMANDS
“Sack” also can refer to a part of the male anatomy, so “sack lunch” might be taken as a description of some specific homoerotic practice (ala “teabag”), in which case I’m sure these Seattle dolts would be just fine with it.
(sorry, couldn't resist!)
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It is also possible that “sack lunch” has a paternalistic origin indicating male dominance over, well, over everything female of course. So it is quite likely a deeply misogynistic phrase. Seattle officials should be apprised of their appalling insensitivity immediately and be told to resign in shame, disgrace, humiliation or whatever the heck it is that makes Progressive a-holes go away.
This makes me wonder who Elliott Bronstein beat out when he was hired. I’d hate to see who the losers were. And he probably makes 80 or 90 grand a year. Fire this clown and send the money to a cancer research clinic.
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Not after your kind get through with it. Centuries have clearly shown that if you outlaw one word for its meaning, people will invent a euphemism to say the same thing...which someone will then get offended by until the PC police decide to ban that word too.
Back when Ted Turner owned CNN and the Atlanta Braves he sent out a memo banning the word "foreign" from all broadcasts. His reasoning was that Turner employees were "citizens of the world" and "foreign" was considered xenophobic. It was suggested reporters use the word "international" to substitute.
So during a Braves broadcast, the action stopped while the home plate umpire inspected a pitcher he thought was doctoring the baseball. Braves announcer Skip Caray chirped, "he's inspecting (the pitcher)'s glove for an international substance."
“It used to be a way people could judge skin color,” Bronstein said in a phone interview.
When, Bronstein? I think you’re full of brown stuff.
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