From FoxNews.com:
Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms “citizen” and “brown bag” are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.
KOMO-TV reports that the city’s Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.
Right. “Citizen.” “Brown bag.” Offensive. Let’s see; to whom? Oh yes, illegals. Mexicans specifically.
“Luckily, we’ve got options,” Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo obtained by the station. “For ‘citizens,’ how about ‘residents?'”
Luckily, there isn’t one set of actual testicles in the entire OCR.
Seattle, however, isn’t the only city with an eye on potentially disruptive words.
The New York Post reported in March 2012 that the city’s Department of Education avoids references to words like “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests because they could evoke “unpleasant emotions” among the students.
Dinosaurs, for example, conjures the topic of evolution, which could rile fundamentalists and birthdays are not celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses. Halloween, meanwhile, suggests an affiliation to Paganism.
Officials said such exclusions are normal procedure, insisting it’s not censorship.
Of course. That Bill of Rights and First Amendment, such a terribly oppressive and limiting document.
Heavy sigh.
BZ
Just the first of many… NYC is also doing that…
The 1st Amendment is alive and well in Seattle. You just need to attend a Longshoreman Union Rally to find it. I would pay good money to see one of the OCR toads lecture the Longshoreman.
Wouldn’t that be glorious?
BZ
Stupid me, here all this time I thought a brown bag was sumthin’ that had a sammich in it!
I know; who’da thunk it?
“Methinks thou doth protest too much,” and “thou sees conspiracies behind every door.”
BZ
Looooong HEAVY sigh.
What idiots. What’s next. Let’s see. The river is rising, I hope the dikes (upsets lesbians)will hold…Well, I don’t want to de nigra te (upsets illiterate blacks) anyone but the town was too niggar dly (again upsets illiterate blacks, maybe whites too…) to spend enough saying it was pouring money down a ‘black hole’. (there’s that pesky color word again). By the way, Scotland Yard has already banned the use of the word blacklist. I guess come December we won’t be able to sing I’m dreaming of a White Christmas. After all that would be offensive to people of color. And Rudolf with his RED nose could be offensive to communists. And Dorothy can’t follow the Yellow brick road because she might offend orientals… and finally Joseph Conrad’s book, the Nigger of the Narcissus has been renamed by a Dutch based publisher who thought the use of ‘nigger’ was offensive. It is now called…The N-word of the Narcissus.
Also, sorry for the blog being up and down and up and down. The server was having issues which, I hope, are solved now.
BZ
Yeah… so it’s Festivus for the rest of us.
Props on the taped up emo chick. I would like to set her free.