Barking, hysterical, politically-correct madness ping.
Control the language and make the word ‘citizen’ mean something bad. Then make the concept bad. Then open the one world borders.
Obvious.
I retired (from the City of Seattle) just in time.
I don’t think anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances, considered “brown-bag” offensive. They were called “brown-bag” lunches because lunch bags have traditionally been - uh - brown.
this is satire, right?
abso-freaking-lutely nuts!
Does this mean Morgan Freeman can’t talk about black holes anymore?
Apparently there are no editors at KOMO to correct their dumb reporters.
How pathetic! I used to take my lunch to school in brown paper bags for years. What’s next, are they going to demand that paper bag manufacturers only make White paper bags? Now that would be racist because we all no the only color that is truly racist is White!
What can brown do for you?
Why do blacks insist on being called blacks? After all, there are black magic and black arts and black moods and black humor and black ice, and they’re all considered bad. Shouldn’t “black” be banned?
What! I believe the just barely literate reporter means a sordid history. Even so, in my world, the brown bag lunch is a completely innocuous and even boring concept and hardly sordid. (Unless it involves a remote wilderness area, a bottle of something requiring proof-of-age and my terribly attractive contractor.)
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.
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.
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.
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."