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."
Strike up a Doobie.
It’s Seattle man...!
hahahahaha! oh my...hahahaha!
Leftists really are mentally ill. Seattle is one of those places where its like an infection.
Exactly! These people are completely mental!
Well he can. If you are of a pinkish hue, you better not be mentioning them!
They even wanted to ban peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in some school down there as racist
LOL! That's great. I'm surprised they haven't come up with a word in place of blind. I'm sure that's got to be offensive somehow.
What the hell, “subjects” is now more accurate than “citizens” anyway.
Oh my goodness! Truly, there have to be some fairly somewhat sane liberals out there that think that some of this stuff is getting beyond ridiculous. What could be racist about PBJ?!? Hello?! George Washington Carver!
Having Viking blood in my system, I am offended by such a loose use of the term “sack”. As I imagine my friends of Mongolian ancestry are as well.
I remember, I wrote a parody about it...
http://asspos.blogspot.com/2012/09/hate-crime-allegations-shock-frighten.html
“Luckily, we’ve got options,” Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo.
Luckily as a CITIZEN, I have options and that is to ignore you silliness and speak the language. If it offends you that is YOUR prob;em to deal with not mine...........
Very good! :) I’ll have to look up the original story. That is just insane and so hard to believe. Is there now a ban on PBJ’s? I remember some black politician or official in TX getting offended by the term “blackhole” that was used in a meeting by a white person. These people need to be locked up and fed with a stick! ;)
One day, the hard rain will come...
That sounds like something a kindergarten teacher would say.
Kiddies, it's "lunch and learn time". Then you get a nappy-poo.
And I don't know ANYONE who brown bags it call it a "sack lunch".
"Brown bagging" just means you made something or brought something from home.
Sometimes I just HATE this city.
Just when I think liberals can't possibly get more ridiculous, they ALWAYS surprise me.
She told us: "Time to get your dinner pails!".
We of course laughed.
You mean our lunch boxes?
We weren't around during the Depression, so it sounded silly.
/johnny
What about potentially offensive abbreviations like: GTH, ESAD, GFY, & FUEB?
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