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Canada's Girl Guides cancel name "Brownies."
https://www.girlguides.ca/WEB/GGC/branch_name_change.aspx | Girl Guides

Posted on 12/01/2022 10:42:23 AM PST by golux

"Taking this step means we are creating more inclusive spaces where racialized girls in Canada can feel welcome and proud to belong in Girl Guides. With this change, we hope even more girls will see Guiding as a space where they can just be themselves..."


TOPICS: Canada; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brownies; canada; chat; girlguides; girlscouts; newsforumabuse
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To: I-ambush
Cleveland will declare war on Canada!.................
21 posted on 12/01/2022 10:58:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Old Yeller
I’m waiting for the Packers to have to change their name.

No, but they will make them add "Fudge" to it.

22 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:03 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: kosciusko51

I was thinking about this just last week and wondering when it would happen.........................


23 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: gundog

A late friend of mine spent his life up in Fairbanks as a cop and corrections officer, and he wouldn’t take his garbage to the curb without a .357 or .44 strapped to his waist. He told the story of a friend’s wife who took their kids camping, woke in the middle of the night to a black bear poking his nose into their tent. She gave the bear 2 loads of double-ought to his face, and came home with the skinned and dressed bear tied to the hood of their car.

Justin would rather the peasants just be bear scat. It’s not him under threat, he’s got plenty of armed protection, and a little b**** like him would never go in the woods anyway.


24 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:26 AM PST by quikstrike98 ( )
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To: Old Yeller

Or the Clevelnd Browns....

Hey, Browns is just slang for Brownies


25 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:27 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: golux
a space where they can just be themselves

What a difference from the Cub/Boy Scouts I was a member of. We were called to become better than ourselves, to do our best to do our duties to God and our country, to help other people at all times, to keep ourselves physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Our goal was to become:

TRUSTWORTHY
LOYAL
HELPFUL
FRIENDLY
COURTEOUS
KIND
OBEDIENT
CHEERFUL
THRIFTY
BRAVE
CLEAN
REVERENT

26 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:52 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Old Yeller

To what?
The Fudgies?..................


27 posted on 12/01/2022 10:59:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Olog-hai

I only started hearing it in the last few years, mostly among East Indians referring to themselves jokingly (likes blacks refer to each other as n*****)


28 posted on 12/01/2022 11:00:15 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Secret Agent Man

29 posted on 12/01/2022 11:00:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: canuck_conservative

Interesting.

So the Girl Guides are canceling East Indians.


30 posted on 12/01/2022 11:01:48 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: I-ambush

To be able to be themselves....
in a safe space...
for their coprophagia.
Brownies...


31 posted on 12/01/2022 11:04:39 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: golux

House elves counter-demonstrate.


32 posted on 12/01/2022 11:04:52 AM PST by dangus
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To: golux

...where racialized girls in Canada can feel welcome and proud to belong in Girl Guides.

Girl Guides? Both words have issues. Perhaps they mean Person Neither Leading or Following.


33 posted on 12/01/2022 11:05:23 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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In 2015, GGC formally announced that trans girls are welcome in Guiding, and in 2019, it released a new simplified uniform of a t-shirt or tunic, designed with input from girls that embraces the richness of its members’ diversity and reduces barriers to belonging. …
Given what they did seven years ago (this is from the press release), one wonders if the term “girl” is going to stay.
34 posted on 12/01/2022 11:05:42 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: golux

I was busted with pride when I took the Brownie oath 75 years ago. From Wikipedia:

In the United States, Brownies use the same Promise and Law as the other age groups of the Girl Scouts of the USA.[10]

Girl Scout Promise:

On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

Girl Scout Law:

I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.


35 posted on 12/01/2022 11:06:14 AM PST by ryderann
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To: Secret Agent Man

Just so you don’t inspire snowflakes, no, Browns refers to the uniform color, just like “Cardinals,” [here meaning “Red”] “White Sox,” “Red Sox,” “Blues,” “Reds,” etc. The Baltimore Orioles were formerly known as the St. Louis Browns.


36 posted on 12/01/2022 11:07:13 AM PST by dangus
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To: Olog-hai

Sadly, it will be now.


37 posted on 12/01/2022 11:08:08 AM PST by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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To: golux

These people see problems where there are none. They are sick puppies. I was in the Brownies. I was minded of luscious chocolate pastries, if anything.


38 posted on 12/01/2022 11:08:17 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: CodeJockey

Reminds me of what they tried to do with the term “tar baby”. When Pierre Delecto or Haley Barbour used the term, it suddenly was “racist” or “racial” . . .


39 posted on 12/01/2022 11:12:37 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: joshua c

Ultravioletans.


40 posted on 12/01/2022 11:12:54 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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