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Washington, DC's black Mayor, Anthony Williams, gladly accepted the resignation of his white staff member, David Howard, because Mr. Howard uttered the word 'niggardly' in a private staff meeting.
Webster's Tenth Edition defines the word 'niggardly' to "grudgingly mean about spending or granting". The Barnhard Dictionary of Etymology traces the origins of 'niggardly' to the 1300's, and to the words 'nig' and 'ignon', meaning "miser" in Middle English. No where in any of these references is any mention of racial connotations associated with the word 'niggardly'.
In other words, it's a perfectly good and useful word. But there is the unfortunate coincidence that it starts with the same four letters as the word "ni**er". The news media are so loathe to use the "N" word, that they've been substituting the phrase "racial slur", as in "...they mistook the word 'niggardly' for a racial slur..."
Washington, DC's population is 60% black, and it's citizens have been very critical of Mayor Williams for "not being black enough" -- especially because he hired several well-qualified whites to help him run this troubled city.
Racial intolerance, ignorance, and misplaced political correctness have cost a white mayoral aide his job in Washington, DC. And, as many of the other stories on Adversity.Net clearly illustrate, the "niggardly" controversy is only the tip of the "intolerance iceberg".
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/racist-baa-baa-black-sheep-put-out-to-pasture/story-e6freoof-1226012503056BLACK sheep are on the endangered species list as some children in north Queensland learn to sing Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep.
The English nursery rhyme may have survived for 200-plus years but political correctness could finally put it out to pasture.
Some schools in Britain have banned the song for being racist, but Pelicans Innisfail Child Care allows children to sing about black sheep or rainbow sheep.
Director Pam McLaughlin said some teachers sang the changed lyrics, and some children already knew the changes.
"We just go with whatever the children want," Ms McLaughlin said.
"The kids are just singing and having fun. Some sing black sheep, some sing rainbow sheep. It's just a song.
"We don't have anything that says, 'You have to sing it this way'."
The BBC reported in 2000 that Birmingham City Council had banned the song for being racist. It was later overturned after a backlash from parents.
I'd say he was just using the force.
Someone attempted to dress me down once for calling someone a lady..when I asked them what the hell they were talking about..they explained that was a term for a prostitute.
Perhaps in the circles in which you circulate. One would hope not more generally.Dont know exactly what Slipper is supposed to have said, but how can comparing womans private parts to a mussel be construed as extremely sexist and offensive?...isnt it pretty standard ?
You should have known better, after that old chestnut;
Who was that lady I saw you with last night?
That was no lady...that was my wife.
Perhaps in the circles in which you circulate. One would hope not more generally.
Given the gross indecency surrounding the sexual abuse by members of the catholic church, that hardly seems relevant.I admit to not mixing with any nuns or such recently
Again, I can only be relieved that I don't share your social circle.however euphamisms (sic) for female genitalia, including various molluscs, is rather obvious, and quite commonplace to whatever locality, age and social strata that I have noticed.
Agree entirely about general political correctness, e.g. 'rainbow sheep' rather than 'black sheep'.In relation to the title of the thread,
It is and it's a shame.
Bang their heads together and six strokes of the cane each from Christine Milne.Crude, schoolboy sexual innuendo, however, is another matter. That is an example of sexism, immaturity, rather than any flouting of political correctness.
Bang their heads together and six strokes of the cane each from Christine Milne.
That should sort-em out.
Given the gross indecency surrounding the sexual abuse by members of the catholic church, that hardly seems relevant.
Again, I can only be relieved that I don't share your social circle.
Agree entirely about general political correctness, e.g. 'rainbow sheep' rather than 'black sheep'.
Crude, schoolboy sexual innuendo, however, is another matter. That is an example of sexism, immaturity, rather than any flouting of political correctness.
Bang their heads together and six strokes of the cane each from Christine Milne.
That should sort-em out.
Awg's attitude to Slipper's crudities is an indication of the immaturity of them both. The language they both approve of are things that schoolboys usually leave behind them as they mature, along with the practice of writing crudities on the toilet door.
One question I would love to see asked of Julia Gillard and some of the others on her front bench that say attending Liberals should have walked out of the conference at which Alan Jones spoke and are smugly saying how by comparison most of their side had walked out or condemned the comedian at the CFMEU meeting is whether this is the first such event attended by Labor ministers that such a thing has happened.
Are they saying that the CFMEU meeting was the first meeting or conference or get-together that someone said something sexist and distasteful? If not, and I doubt very much that it is not, then why have we not heard of them walking out at previous events at which such things happened?
the mock outrage is far more disgusting afaic.
THE decision to put Baa, Baa, Black Sheep out to pasture at some kindergartens because of racial concerns has been slammed by hundreds of Victorians.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vi...ictorian-kinders/story-fni0fit3-1227093091674
PC gone mad.
Staff at childcare centres in the south-eastern suburbs told the Herald Sun the lyric was being changed because of concerns over the racial connotations of “black”, and to reflect a multicultural community.
Kindergarten teachers have told the Herald Sun a centre in Melbourne’s east had also considered changing the line “one for the little boy who lives down the lane” in case it could be deemed sexist.
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