I think we're just moving by the insanity checkpoint on the road to oblivion.....
Merlin
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Merlin
Friday, August 31, 2012
State Department: 'Hold down the fort,' other common phrases are offensive
Chief Diversity Officer John Robinson listed several common phrases and went on to explain why their roots are racially or culturally insensitive
Will Rahn |Daily Caller
John M. Robinson, the Chief Diversity Officer at the U.S. Department
of State, wants America’s diplomats to know that common phrases and
idioms like “holding down the fort” are, in fact, deeply racist.
Robinson, who also serves as director of the Department’s Office of
Civil Rights, used his “Diversity Notes” feature in the July/August
issue of the official “State Magazine”
to examine the hateful roots of everyday sayings. In one recent public
relations kerfuffle at Nike, Inc., he wrote, the company torpedoed a
sneaker called the “Black and Tan.”
“What a wonderful celebratory gesture and appreciation for Irish culture. Not!” wrote Robinson, an adult.
Robinson notes that “Black and Tan,” in addition to being an
enjoyably robust alcoholic concoction, can refer to the brutal
Protestant militiamen who ravaged the Irish countryside in the early
20th century — which is why Irish bartenders always get so upset when
you order one.
In an effort to avoid offending those notoriously fragile Irish sensibilities, Nike pulled the shoe from stores.
Robinson would like us all to learn from the sneaker company’s
inadvertent racism and really start watching what we say. For example,
did you know “going Dutch” is a reference to Netherlanders’ apparently
well-known parsimoniousness, and that your widowed neighbor, sweet old
Mrs. Rasmussen, cries every time she hears you use it?
And did you know using the phrase “holding down the fort” is the
linguistic equivalent of scalping a Cherokee? According to Robinson, the
phrase dates back to American soldiers on the western frontier who
wanted to “hold down” all that land they stole.
“Handicap” and “rule of thumb” are two more figures of speech that
Robsinon, in his wisdom, has decreed offensive. The latter, Robinson
says, refers to the width of a stick a man could once use to legally
beat his wife.
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HOW ABOUT, "HAUL YOUR UGLY FAT ASS OUT OF DC, GO BACK TO ARKANSAS AND BAKE SOME COOKIES FOR HUMA, HILLARY." Is that offensive enough?
How about "Black and Tan Coonhound", a registered purebred canine breed?
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