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Seattle Bans Words 'Citizen' and 'Brown Bag'
UK Telegraph ^ | 4:55PM BST 02 Aug 2013 | By Alasdair Baverstock

Posted on 08/02/2013 12:55:36 PM PDT by drewh

A memo which was circulated within local government in Washington state, before being leaked to local TV station KOMO News, advised state workers that they should refrain from using such phrases in official business.

According to the memo, the word ‘citizen’ is offensive to those Seattlelites who are residents in the city, but not US citizens.

The phrase ‘brown bag’ is offensive for its having been used as a verb during racial segregation in the United States. When deciding whether or not a black person was light-skinned enough to enter a private residence, servants would ‘brown bag’ them: using a paper grocery bag to gauge their skin tone.

The memo’s author Elliott Bronstein, who works in the city’s Office for Civil Rights, wrote: "Luckily we’ve got options. For ‘citizens’, how about ‘residents’?”.

“To replace ‘brown bag’”, he continued, tackling the offensive phrase that employees use to describe their packed lunches, “we can go with ‘lunch-and-learn’ or ‘sack lunch’”.

The news has gone viral in the United States, receiving more than 5,000 shares on Facebook and as many related tweets. One Twitter user described the news as “unreal”, while another points out that “our constitution uses the word ‘citizen’ 17 times”.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bluezones; leftists; seattle; speechcodes
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1 posted on 08/02/2013 12:55:36 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Liberalism truly is a mental disease...............


2 posted on 08/02/2013 12:57:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: drewh

Does this mean they’re going to ban Citizen watches in their “utopia” also? So what should a brown bag be called from here on out in Marxville? A hood for DemocRAT women?


3 posted on 08/02/2013 12:58:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare is just commie DemocRAT code for genocide.)
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To: drewh

Nice to see the total idiocy made international news...however there’s already a thread on this story here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050417/posts


4 posted on 08/02/2013 12:58:34 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: drewh

Seattle need to just slide off into the ocean... The sooner the better. And I have friends and relatives there. (Don’t know why they live there, as they are not libs...)


5 posted on 08/02/2013 1:00:33 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: drewh

citizen:

word in ancient times that referred to a legal resident of a nation with full voting privileges

was finally determined to be a word implying prejudice towards those were weren’t citizens or on national soil legally

the discontinuance of it’s use followed the first non-citizen president of the United States 2008


6 posted on 08/02/2013 1:01:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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7 posted on 08/02/2013 1:01:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: drewh

Is “Brown bag” a reference to Michelle?


8 posted on 08/02/2013 1:01:27 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: drewh

That “brown bag” story sounds like an urban legend to me, like the “rule of thumb” junk that feminists keep repeating.


9 posted on 08/02/2013 1:01:49 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: drewh

I grew up in the deep South during the 50s and 60s. I have never heard the term “brown bag” except as a way of carrying your lunch. I am quite sure of that too.

We are now reaping the planting of radical liberalism which was implanted by the media since at least the 50s. A couple of generations now who have had their minds washed. Probably amazing that we still have any conservatives at all.


10 posted on 08/02/2013 1:01:58 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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In related news the Seattle Seahawks have been forced to release Will Blackmon, Brandon Browner, and especially Marshawn LYNCH for their racially insensitive names.
11 posted on 08/02/2013 1:02:18 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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I’m sure they were given the option of changing their names to something more PC before they released them.


12 posted on 08/02/2013 1:02:56 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: drewh

Here is another Seattle times article that hasn’t gotten as much coverage.

http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021513853_boeinglayoffsxml.html

It seems that members of the Boeing unions get special unemployment compensation if there jobs are outsourced.


13 posted on 08/02/2013 1:03:25 PM PDT by Eva (B Obama is to Trayvon Martin as Al Sharpton is to Tawana Brawley)
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To: Boogieman

I agree. Probably from the same source that claims “picnic” is based on slang for lynching.


14 posted on 08/02/2013 1:03:49 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: drewh
I think we should ban the word "Seattle" from all polite conversations.
If we have to mention it at all, we should use "That awful rainy place on the left coast".

15 posted on 08/02/2013 1:03:55 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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The memo’s author Elliott Bronstein, who works in the city’s Office for Civil Rights, wrote: "Luckily we’ve got options. For ‘citizens’, how about ‘residents’?”.

Getting to be just like Aldous Huxley and other science-fiction writers predicted of our future. The animals in charge decide what we are called, to differentiate us from them. We are just food to them, being servants to provide tax dollars and support. Soon all of us will just be called dogs, to make it easier to shoot us when we disagree with them.

16 posted on 08/02/2013 1:06:04 PM PDT by roadcat
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Well, I must be a clueless idiot.

I always thought ‘Brown Bag” meant to bring one’s own lunch to school or work to eliminate high cafeteria fees.

The racial connotation never, in 60 years, ever crossed my mind.

But now I have been exposed to the alleged ugly racist meaning of an innocent phrase whi9ch used to mean something else entirely..

Liberals CREATE racists out of innocent, well-meaning people by making up this junk.


17 posted on 08/02/2013 1:06:20 PM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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"In related news the Seattle Seahawks have been forced to release Will Blackmon, Brandon Browner, and especially Marshawn LYNCH for their racially insensitive names."

Comment of the day.
18 posted on 08/02/2013 1:10:49 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: drewh

Comrades!


19 posted on 08/02/2013 1:12:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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"lunch-and-learn"

No, we can't have that. It suggests a relation of dominance in which one person claims to have knowledge that someone else lacks. It is an oppressive hierarchical relationship patterned after the outmoded teacher-student paradigm associated with patriarchal societies.
20 posted on 08/02/2013 1:15:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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