Posted on 09/17/2014 12:39:14 PM PDT by Biggirl
Just hours after apologizing for using what was perceived as an anti-Semitic slur, Vice President Joe Biden deployed another term Wednesday that some might consider ethnically offensive.
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West of the Eastern Roman Empire would be my guess.
OK. I will say this - WHAT DIFFERENCEDOES IT MAKE?
Seriously, am I the only one who is tired of some of this foolishness when a person uses a word that is perhaps becoming archaic, but was certainly a legitimate use of the word?
I am not a fan of Joe Biden. Lots of things he says are silly and hypocritical, but this is not one of them.
Says who? The permanently outraged?
I don't like Biden but this is nothing. "Orient" means "east". Big deal. No one should have to walk around on egg shells for fear that the permanently outraged are going to find yet another reason to be outraged.
The only thing I'll say is that its pleasant to watch Dems get caught in their own PC nonsense. But its still nonsense.
The last time you saw a Charlie Chan movie.
Joking!
“That’s the first time I ever heard that Orient is now a slur. When did that happen?”
When the Grievance Industry needed something new to exploit.
I couldn’t care less what those professional busybodies do but it annoys me to hear some ‘conservatives’ (Hannity) climbing on their bandwagon.
well done!
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