Posted on 06/26/2014 7:56:38 PM PDT by kingattax
It seems as though the racist accusations have turned on First Lady Michelle Obama after she made a grammar gaffe on Monday while speaking about part-time job salaries. Unlike when she inappropriately slanders someone or something for being racist, in her recent offending comments she was in fact acting the part.
The First Lady used the word “gypped” while describing the earnings for part-time jobs, with specific regard to when she herself was a working mother as an ABC news reporter at the White House Summit on Working Families. The remark is now drawing some criticism from media outlets for the racial slur.
(Excerpt) Read more at madworldnews.com ...
HAY! WATCH IT!!!
I am asking the same thing. When was she a reporter?
This is a lefty navel-gazing non-issue.
““gypped” comes from “gypsy” which comes from “egyptian”.”
A derogatory term for an Egyptian is “gyppo” and is probably as much a contraction of “Egyptian” as a reference to the endemic/inherent dishonest shown by ‘gyppo’/Muslim to the non-Muslim.
It’s only considered racist by liberals and idiot rinos.
If it’s Roma, it’s accurate. These people claim gypping and stealing from others as a way of life. If they don’t like the derivation, then I don’t feel gypped.
Can we still refer to Harpo Marx or will the Irish be offended?
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...but every night the men would come around...and lay their money down.
“In like Flynn” was a good one.
“All this for a damned flag?”
And madworldnews.net is not the top news source.
“The term “gypped” is derived from the word “gypsy,” which refers to the Romani people. It’s used to describe one who swindles or cheats someone and has many negative connotations.”
I’m with you - I’ve used the word all my life. I’m certainly no fan of Michelle, but she’s given us more than enough ammo to go after her in many other areas. I give her a pass on this one...and I’m with her too, I’m no fan of Gypsies either.
Now if she had used the term “Jewed”, that would be different in my book...as it points much stronger towards a specific group of people and is not an everyday word, at least for most people.
I’ll bet that touched off a Chinese Fire Drill at the White House.
Rochester, NY, only place I ever heard that when you don’t show up when you’re supposed to, you japped. And I was born in Tokyo. LOL
I bet “gypped” came first, and then “gypsies.” Gonna look it up.
I am most encouraged that, while there is disquiet some persons have over the First Lady, she has her defenders here. The biggest laugh about the term Gypsies is from England. The politically correct brigade,decided the word was insulting. They instituted the word "travellers" to designate parasitical wanderers who camped on public parks. The actual Romany descendants objected to the designation "traveller" applied to them.
The joker was that only 5000 to 7000 real Romany exist in England today. The other 90,000 are persons in caravans and campers who never work. They settle on nice parks and leave filth and debris and move on. They get funds from the government, as do the indigent in the city.
The old traditional Gypsies of George Henry Borrow's biographies, like the name Gypsy. They would prefer Romany though.
The article is missing the point in talking about the origin of the word... the issue is that she was given an opportunity that required her to work hard.
Hard work pays off for most us, it's what we teach our children, isn't it? Not in the White House I guess, there they view this story of life as being gypped, that working above and beyond is a rip off? Geeze...
PC insanity!
It is not a racial slur if it was not used in the context or someone did not know it was one.
Hey, watch it buddy.
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