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Title: Seattle To Ban ‘Potentially Offensive’ Words Like ‘Brown Bag’ And ‘Citizen’
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URL Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/08/0 ... -and-%E2%80%98citizen%E2%80%99
Published: Aug 3, 2013
Author: Fox
Post Date: 2013-08-03 10:14:36 by We The People
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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. Daily politics news delivered to your inbox: sign up for our newsletter 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.
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#1. To: We The People (#0)
No thanks.
He made that up. I know all of the racially insensitive terms, and that ain't one of them.
Here is the problem, hondolt. When you have people employed full time in these types of positions, they have to justify their jobs. Busy bodies.
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#2. To: We The People (#0)
the term "brown bag" has been used historically as a way to judge skin color.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#3. To: hondo68 (#2)
"Luckily, we've got options," Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo..
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