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.”
So to be non-offensive nowadays a scared person is said to be “rainbow as a sheet”, a Congressman will once again be accused of “rainbow-washing a scandal”, a coward will be castigated as being “rainbow-bellied”, and when you surrender to this incredible BS you are said to be “running up the rainbow flag”.
That last one is rather appropriate...
it’s bush’s fault, and I am a racist
This post micro aggressed me.
You are revealing your racism by the mere fact that you are allowing him to serve you.
I was afraid of that.
I apologize sincerely
and will delete the entire thread at once.
I am sick to death of the Language Stalinism that is being pushed on us. This is the reason Trump is winning. He tells all these people, ‘Suck it up, buttercup!”
No. Buying. Pink Lady apples is unforgivably racist.
I'd have responded, "Damn. I *KNEW* it was a mistake to leave our obsolete farm tools lying around."
Meanwhile, “blacks can’t be racist”.
True, but it probably would not look very good either if I requested to have a white server instead.
Is BLACK COW,(the caramel bar covered in chocolate) racist?
What will make it non racist? Quick! I am quivering in my boots to be as PC as possible!
Understanding how the Left operates, the subtleties of how they operate, is important to determining how best to fight back.
These problems are difficult.
They require careful thought and discreet, circumspect action.
There was a time that I wasn’t racist. Now there is little hope for me not to be labeled as a racist because of my normal, what was once non-racist, speech. So be it. I embrace it. I’m a racist. I am not changing to conform to lunacy.
Remember the old medicinal licorice bar? I think it was IDEAL brand stamped on the side. It contained no sugar and was HORRIBLE!
Let’s face it. Being white is racist.
It’s good that you realize that.
I take me coffee mulatto...
How does this work?
White male = racists
White female = wife
White female produced by white male and white female.
Something doesn’t work logically (as if any logic at all were involved in this stupidity!)
...sagging pants are culturally associated associated with African Americans...
Along with murder and misogyny and self-defeatism. Let’s tolerate and encourage more of the same
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