These are the innocuous words progressives want to ban you from using

New York Post ^ | July 25, 2020 | Kyle Smith

[TBP]

[W]hat’s easy, when it comes to race, is pretending to be outraged about commonly used words.

At the Los Angeles Times, for instance, an editor has said the word “looters,” which has been used many times in the paper, now has “a pejorative and racist connotation” and that anyone who is inclined to use the word should “talk to your immediate supervisor.” Translation: Best not use the word at all, if you want to stay employed.

In Houston, a Realtors association announced it would no longer use terms such as “master bedroom” or “master bathroom” not because any sane person ever associated a nice Mediterranean-style 4BR with Kunta Kinte getting whipped in “Roots” but because some yellow-blazered property guru thought this would be a way of expressing generalized racial niceness. Is any single black person better off because of this word-juggling? No, but people are confusing gestures with actions more than ever.

Twitter, which is saturated with woke-campus paranoia, this month announced that it was blacklisting the word “blacklist,” along with other supposedly “non-inclusive” terms such as “grandfathered” (ageist, I guess), “guys” (too gendered) and “sanity check,” which is something most of us could use a little more of in our lives, but Twitter desperately needs on a daily basis, the way Uma Thurman needed that adrenaline shot in “Pulp Fiction.”

[hole_n_one]

[metmom]

That’s right.

[familyop]

So real estate agents in rural areas can get faster sales by advertising the “master house.”

[familyop]

Or better, yet, the suburbs.

[Stand Watch Listen]

 

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Oldspeak is soooooooooo 2019.
Amerisoc 2020!

[P.O.E.]

Don’t blame the rest of us because the actions of others have brought shame to the words used to describe them.

[The Great RJ]

Get used to words like doublethink and thought crime.

[DeplorableGirl]

In the French Quarter the detached apartments in the rear of the house are still called slave quarters because they actually were. Nobody cares.
The illegal shutdown is causing long time NOLA restaurants to close permanently. (K-Paul’s & Port of Call closed this week). That’s what people care about. Restaurants/tourism/hospitality is the life blood of NOLA. Katrina didn’t kill NOLA but losing its restaurants/tourists will. I despise how evil politicians used this China virus to destroy everything around them!

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[Gasshog]

the timing of this and my memory slowly failing work too perfect

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I wonder what they are going to do with “Up yours, Gomer” and “F**k you, Jack”.

No more “take out” for food or Mafia hits.

Chinatown will now be known as XiTown.

Hooters will have to be changed to - you fill in the blanks.

Will “chicken breasts” now refer to Antifa feminazis who run from the police?

Re “Putting lipstick on a pig” will no longer be allowed as a description for Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi.

Guess describing Rep. Adam Schiff as “queer-bait” is out. Wonder what Rep. Swallowswell is going to call his buttbuddy now.

I still want KAPO for Soros and Schumer.

[ronnie raygun]

Those who come up with this insane crap will eventually fall victim to those they kneel to

[SkyDancer]

Commiecrats would be a better name for them. At least it would describe what they actually are and stand for. Marxicrats would work as well.

[frank ballenger]

Were they properly frisked before the mug shot? You’d better check.

[Rdct29]

The internet has made it possible for a lot of moronic assholes to get their stupid opinions heard by a large number of people. I use to work with a black guy who use to joke around saying racist made the word black bad and white good. He would see how many words he could come up with for each one. We would laugh every time we did it. I wish I still worked with him to hear his opinion about what's happening today.

[MrChips]

Great book and movie, either version!