Posted on 05/23/2016 6:06:33 AM PDT by rktman
President Obama signed a legislatively passed amendment to the Local Public Works and Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 that bans the federal government from using the words “Negro” and “Oriental” to describe blacks and Asians.
“Many Americans may not be aware that the word ‘Oriental’ is derogatory,” said Rep. Grace Meng on New York, Breitbart reported. “But it is an insulting term that needed to be removed from the books and I am extremely pleased that my legislation to do that is now the law of the land. The term ‘Oriental’ has no place in federal law and at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good.”
The measure also updates how the federal government describes minorities, and replaces ‘Negro” with African-American and American Indians as Native Americans. The acceptable reference for Oriental is now Asian-American, Breitbart reported.
Just a few weeks ago, the Library of Congress began its official replacement of “illegal alien” with other less inflammatory references to those in the country illegally.
“Our country is a rich tapestry of cultural backgrounds and Americans of all backgrounds deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., one of the co-sponsors of the bill.
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Sooo, um, what are we supposed to call Hillary?
Make sure you don’t call her Oriental, you might get a ticket.
Or the feds saying we have to fight “extremism”, including Islamic and Tea Party extremists.
Well, not islam so much. They just need jobs and hugs. Tea party types, now that’s something to fight. How dare they love freedom and revere the constitution.
Is a citizen of Egyptian extraction an African-American?
Obama is not a negro. He is a mulatto—half-white, half-negro.
It’s furthering the emotionally abusive scenario “everything you do is wrong”.
Most people in a relationship (of any kind) try to get along. The abuser will gradually make that impossible, breaking the other’s spirit, creating abject submission in a desperate attempt to get along and keep the peace. Any pushback is crushed as absurd and unacceptable, punished to discourage further disagreement. Any “stand your ground” position is spun as basically criminal.
The abuse continues. He11, I can’t even write about sensible examples without prospects of being subject to actionable consequences. Seems the only way out is to commit the declared transgressions, and be willing to literally fight the consequences.
Hey now. Let’s put America first.
The point is to confound your ability to communicate, tied in emotional knots over what is “allowed” and desperately explaining rationalizations, while your tormentors don’t give a damn about those rules, exempt themselves, and gleefully use malignant terms for your kind (cracker, teabagger) and sneer at your objections.
The 12-hour-time-zone-difference people.
I guess we can refer to Orientals as Eat Asians. (We have always been at war with East Asia!)
#60 ~ SO, Negro and Oriental are off the board now. Thankfully Porch Monkey and Slant-Eye don’t appear to be on the list. ;-) ~
Moolies and chinks? Ha!
(panem et circenses...)
I see what you did there...
EAST Asians. *sigh* the caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet...
Asian food is pretty tasty.... LOL
“Newspeak—Negro is Double-Ungood. Oriental is Double-Ungood. Gay is Good. Control Language and you control thought. This is just PC Crapola. Words rather than action.”
George Orwell, prophet.
How many different choices are on the FEDERAL Census forms???
Niggaz and chinks, instead?
How are they going to give preferences to various minorities if they don’t have labels for them????
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