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."
Elliott Bronstein is an example of a public official who is way overpaid and spends the taxpayer dollar thinking about trivialities.
What a “Steaming pile of previously eaten food”.
That should be “Absence of Light Holes”
I am VERY offended, and find this term to be sexist, ageist, and LOOKIST!!!
Just as many of those lunches are made by old geezers as are made by old bags/old sacks.
I'll have you know, I brown-bagged it for years, you little twit! I hadn't even met, let alone married, my old sack, when I started making my own lunches for school, and later, for work. AND I KEPT MAKING THEM! I only eat sack lunches when I'm home, and she fixes us something!
People like you don't go around saying "geezer lunch", do they, Sonny? "Sack lunch" implies that I am an old sack, when, in point of fact, I am a geezer, and proud of it!
Ah, another graduate of hour grate modern schools of journalism, ware each students enters an ate year program ware awl are excepted. Each of it's students is pared (oar teemed, won mite say) with an expert, who's job it is two help them improve they're righting skills, witch in the passed, may have bean worse than thoughs of a block of would. Know thyme will bee waisted on boaring topics such as antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, and homophones. Sew, good buy four now.
This is nothing but a big black hole
Hence, further offensive to womyn who could not bring a sack to the sack lunch, and therefore would feel excluded.
After 40 plus years of world travel I am lucky enough to speak a few different languages and the local slang variants where I lived, worked or was stationed and deployed......
Pride myself on the ability to cuss and throw traffic circle / jungle verbiage all over the world in fine fashion as a representive of my great state of Texas !
This little web site linked here is very very close to perfection in the fine art of cussin and swearin bad people all over the world that deserve such.....Seattle polidiots included.
Y’all stay safe !
You sure they’re not “African-American holes” or “holes of color”?
You too. Link bookmarked for future reference.
Folks just don’t want to believe that the coming NWO is real, and that they have agents implanted everywhere in government and education....sigh
Here is one more example of the slow and insidious destruction of the Constitution.
Is it still acceptable for Seattlenians to refer to Republicans as Fascists?
Of course. Doublethink.
That borders on being Non-PC. Be carefful or the NSA will label you.............a racist!
I guess liberals will have to start calling us “Tea-sackers” now.
So, this pompous twit wishes to decitizenize people, just because not all citizens are United States citizens? Just because some people they serve are non-American citizen U.S. residents, (legal or otherwise) he wants to strip them of the dignity of their citizenship status, in whichever nation that vests, making U.S./Seattle residency superior to their own home-country citizenship? How dare he be so insensitive and elitist!?!
They are scouring the state for copies of the video of ‘Citizen Kane’ and putting a ‘Resident’ sticker over the offending word.
Well, I sort of AM a racist. I LOVE IndyCar and Formula One!
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