This is too ridiculous to even fathom. There isn't a big enough WTF?

 

http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/02/seattle-ban-‘potentially-offensive’-words-‘brown-bag’-and-‘citizen’

 

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.

 

"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?'"

 

In an interview with Seattle's KIRO Radio, Bronstein said the term "brown bag" has been used historically as a way to judge skin color.

 

"For a lot of particularly African-American community members, the phrase brown bag does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people's skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home," Bronstein said.

 

According to the memo, city employees should use the terms "lunch-and-learn" or "sack lunch" instead of "brown bag."

 

Bronstein told KIRO Radio the word "citizen" should be avoided because many people who live in Seattle are residents, not citizens.

 

"They are legal residents of the United States and they are residents of Seattle. They pay taxes and if we use a term like citizens in common use, then it doesn't include a lot of folks," Bronstein said.

 

 

 

Unf**kingbelievable!

Wow

Yeah because these things are important. Now that we stopped saying citizen our debt will shrink and politicians will stop lying!

Further and further down the toilet we go

surreal, I have no other words

Next is asking everyone to give up work so the employment figures will drop to zero

seriously? outrageous....

saw this on fb. i shall now make an effort to use citizen, and brown bag as often as i can whenever i can reasonable work either of them into a conversation. i'm kinda childish that way.

This is the type of crap that they try to pass off as some sort of higher level of intelligence, stoopid fooks perpetuating racism

 

Brown bag is racist ?  "brown bagging it" to me meant bringing lunch rather than buying it, wether in a brown bag or a lunch box / cooler 

 

As a resident of the U.S. I am a CITIZEN not a subject

 

This CITIZEN will be putting his lunch in a BROWN BAG like he did many, many years ago, and then into the cooler from now on

Ya know crap like this pisses me the bleep off. Enough of this pc crap! I am and will not be pc...

Someone don't like it, fuk off! As long as I've been around, brown bag was only known to me as a home made lunch! And I'm a citizen of my country! It offends you, get a citizenship or leave!

 

Nice way to get me ticked first thing of the day! What bs!!!! Welcome to Pussification America Style! (Raising both middle fingers and toes while emptying my nostrils at them)!

 

So much for free speech! Whining little pussies!

 

 

I used to "brown bag" my lunch every day.  I did not know until now that I was a racist.

Other groups that are racist:

physicists - "black hole"

farmers - "yellow squash"

hoteliers - "red roof inns"

cooks - "brownies"

 

I guess I'm just too stupid to pretend to be so sophisticated and enlightened.

The funny thing is that all of this, all of it, has been written about in the past. Many, many books that most of us had on reading lists in HS and college warned of this crap. Animal farm, soylent green, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 all come to mind.

 

Orwell's (who was a socialist, btw) 1984 had doublethink, newspeak and the ministry of truth. All relevant today.

 

The current elites are rewriting history, changing the common usage of language and in a complete implementation of doublethink, the complete arrogance of a people like spitzer and wiener running for office after their crap...and fools supporting them.

 

The ministry of truth was involved in lies. Like the incumbent and, lets say, Benghazi.

 

It goes on and on.

 

When will we take our country back from these scumbags?

 

Yet with all the outrage, we have to be vigilant not to let the very same parties that orchestrate all this to further orchestrate our reaction. When the collective "we" are at this cusp, it is easy for them to raise a scapegoat for us to rally against. Like Hitler did with the Jews. We have to remember that the problem is the people pulling the strings. Not the race/class war that they truly want. That is a slippery slope.

 

Interesting times.

Must be a lot of people in Seattle with no real problems.

Must be a lot of people in Seattle with no real problems.

until mt. rainier blows

until mt. rainier blows

That may solve the whole problem. Instead of citizen or resident, they can call themselves refugees.

That may solve the whole problem. Instead of citizen or resident, they can call themselves refugees.

You mean displaced individuals. Refugees is offensive.

If mt. rainier blows they will be toast but toast is brown so that's offensive .

Funny how only white males can never be offended.

 

Rangel: Tea party same "white crackers" who opposed civil rights

 

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=politics&url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57596817/rangel-tea-party-same-white-crackers-who-opposed-civil-rights/&catid=57596817

 

Did the earth just spin out of its orbit? Because it seems like it did.

 

 

 

Funny how only white males can never be offended.

 

Rangel: Tea party same "white crackers" who opposed civil rights

 

http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?pageType=politics&url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57596817/rangel-tea-party-same-white-crackers-who-opposed-civil-rights/&catid=57596817

 

Did the earth just spin out of its orbit? Because it seems like it did.

just another example of double standards. As far as the OP..... This citizen brown bags alot so I can buy more things that liberal bitches hate...... guns and ammo!

 

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You mean displaced individuals. Refugees is offensive.

I find individuals to be offensive. They are a community, after all.

 

I think I prefer victims. It suits the mentality.

How about "offended peoples"

until mt. rainier blows

 

They would probably all gather together at the base to come up with a new term for a Lahar as it sounds a bit too ethnic and they will all get instantly cooked.

until mt. rainier blows

 

The sooner the better.

How about "offended peoples"

Fine by me, but you better run it by the animal community lest you run afoul of their lobby.

We are no longer citizens of the united states..

 

residents of the united states... so now you do not have to be citizen. Does this make all those Mexicans legals ?

We are no longer citizens of the united states..

 

residents of the united states... so now you do not have to be citizen. Does this make all those Mexicans legals ?

That was who I originally thought they were saying were offended.

 

But it is all a path. And we are willing participants in going down that path.

For every time I hear the words resident and sack lunch, I will say citizen and brown bag twice, respectively.

Well, the city govt can make up any cockamamie crap they want--I have never, ever heard the term "brown bag" used to refer to anything other than a prepared lunch brought from home--but at least you can still CCW in the city of Seattle and the state of WA.  Seriously, who thinks up this BS?

Citizen, offensive??  Really? Some of these people really should get out abroad more and see how they are treated as a foreigner in just about every other country.

Maybe they should do a city-sponsored CCW Lunch and Learn.