Posted on 08/22/2015 10:01:47 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
1. “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” is racist. The nursery rhyme, which dates back to the Middle Ages, is under attack. Some schools and family centers in Scotland, England, and Australia have eliminated the word “black” as racist, and now refer to “rainbow sheep,” “happy sheep,” or “green sheep,” though these new adjectives make no sense at all. Stuart Chamberlain of the Oxford Sure Start Center in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, said, “Basically we have taken the equal-opportunity approach to everything we do.” A local dissenter, however, called it “Stalinist.”
2. M.A.s may be racist, postmasters too. Stephen Davis, master of Pierson College at Yale, says the word “master” in his title is severely upsetting some students and driving them off campus. He wants Pierson and Yale’s eleven other residential colleges to have “heads” rather than “masters.”
3. Liking white meat is racist. Writer Ron Rosenbaum said in Slate that racism accounts for the popularity of white-meat turkey over more flavorful dark meat. “White meat turkey has no taste,” he explained. “Despite its superior taste, dark meat has dark undertones for some. Dark meat seems to summon up ancient fears of contamination and miscegenation as opposed to the supposed superior purity of white meat.”
4. Hoop skirts are racist. After student affairs administrators met with fraternity and sorority leaders, the University of Georgia banned hoop skirts as evocations of the ante bellum South. Writing in the Washington Post, Elizabeth Boyd opined that this decision should go national: While donning a hoop skirt may not constitute a hate crime . . . make no mistake. The Southern belle performances routinely staged on campuses across the South constitute choreography of exclusion . . . young white women serve as signs of nostalgia for a bygone, segregated South and all its attendant privileges.
5. Lunch bags look racist. Elliot Bronstein of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights sent a memo to the public-affairs office banning the term “brown bag” as in brown-bag lunches.
6. Complimenting America as open and fair is racially hurtful. “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” is officially listed as a micro-aggression that the University of California wants eliminated from its classrooms. Also banned are “America is the land of opportunity,” and “America is a melting pot,” because some students may regard those ideas as controversial.
7. Libertarians are racist. In an interview, testy HBO writer-producer David Simon (The Wire, Treme) severely criticized libertarians and suggested that libertarian rhetoric about “freedom” and “liberty” is just code for racism. More P.C. Culture Feds Stop Calling ‘Midget Raisins’ ‘Midget Raisins’ Because ‘Midget’ Is Offensive No Chicken for You! ‘My Truth,’ They Say
8. Climate change advances racism. Best-selling Canadian author Naomi Klein told the Guardian, “You see that in Australia where the treatment of migrants is a profound moral crisis. It’s clear that as sea levels rise this mean streak and open racism is going to become more extreme.”
9. Banning sagging pants is racist. NRO’s Katherine Timpf reported that Henderson State University in Arkansas had banned sagging pants, but the sign announcing the ban came down in two days after students protested. “Those students wanting the sign taken down because they say sagging pants are culturally associated with African Americans,” said student Daisha Haggans.
10. If too many white males are in your class, that’s racist. The Harvard “Voices of Diversity” project interviewed 200 students at four U.S. colleges and found that racist and sexist “micro-aggressions” — subtle but hurtful digs — are a serious problem. Examples: finding that most of the people in your class are white males, other students rolling their eyes when you speak, and “a slight raising of the eyebrows or eyes following you in the dining hall.”
I remember it was a fun song. We stood in a circle in class and jumped down to grab the cotton, then jumped up.
and thats for a reason...lol....to keep 95% on THEIR PLANTATION!
What do we call the killer bees?
Someone decided that they should be called Africanized bees. But then I heard that was deemed to be racist.
Even though they were literally a strain of bees which resulted from cross breeding with bees from Africa, it was deemed racist to call them Africanized.
First explain to her your reasoning, then refer her to the local ACLU for name change assistance, and then to the local branch of the NAACP for re-education .
FREE is the politically correct jargon for Socialism/communism...i.e., no freedom or liberty....Socialism/communism al Bernie Sanders is just one big government plantation all varying shades of grey sans any color or life as once known.
At least you admit it.
That is the first step.
He was wrong also. We have to call them Arachnid Americans.
Your intolerance was exposed.
lOL!!
Did you ever see the unknown comic after he decided to become a ventriloquist?
Funniest thing I ever saw.
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Normal people read Fahrenheit 451 and take it as a warning.
Liberals read it and take it as an instruction manual.
A head is where one goes to take a dump. When I was an undergraduate at Yale, the Masters would never have considered being called Heads. But then many of the Masters back then were WWII and Korean War veterans who knew that one word can have multiple meanings. I guess that’s not true for the Heads at Yale today.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ought to get right on it.
Snicker! :-)
I hate it when I’m at a restaurant ordering milk from a black server and then he and asks me if I want white or chocolate. I mean...what’s the right answer?
Good exercise too.
THAT “FIGGERS”
Buying white bread, white rice, white flour, etc is racist.
Using a black colored phone is racist in that you are telling the black phone what to do; also add black laptops, same reason.
These liberals have to pick a color or statement that isn't racist. They'll have to come up with their own playbook on it.
Yep. Got our little minds and bodies ready for learning.
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