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"Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« on: October 27, 2015, 03:43:34 PM »
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2015, 04:03:15 PM »
I want to figure out some sort of bingo game or drinking game that is centered on what terms and words are now considered offensive.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2015, 04:19:45 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on October 27, 2015, 04:03:15 PM
I want to figure out some sort of bingo game or drinking game that is centered on what terms and words are now considered offensive.

I'd suggest taking a shot anytime some SJW calls "microagression!", but I don't want to die of alcohol poisoning.
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2015, 04:21:10 PM »
Quote from: makattak on October 27, 2015, 04:19:45 PM
I'd suggest taking a shot anytime some SJW calls "microagression!", but I don't want to die of alcohol poisoning.

I got confused when you mentioned alcohol poisoning, until I realized that you meant a shot of booze, not a shot at the SJW.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2015, 04:23:16 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on October 27, 2015, 04:21:10 PM
I got confused when you mentioned alcohol poisoning, until I realized that you meant a shot of booze, not a shot at the SJW.



Well done.  :rofl:
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So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2015, 04:27:37 PM »
And for extra bonus points, I made that reply, flipped over to my FB and was accused of making a microagggression in a comment I made. Awesomesauce!
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2015, 05:06:44 PM »
At least one campus has declared the term "politically correct" to be offensive.  The term, not the idea.  That's like paradox wrapped in irony.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2015, 05:15:56 PM »
It's funny to me that everyone seems to assume that only slaves pick cotton. On the video I saw, she didn't mention slavery or race.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2015, 05:46:40 PM »
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“ want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker,’” she cautioned. “Because I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall, because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like.”

What about the mom who works a job before going to school, and another after her kid(s) go to bed, so she can qualify for a better job and buy her own damn Xmas presents for her kids instead of relying on charity?

Or my buddy's dad who worked 16 hours a day for 35 years so his kids could go to college and get jobs that required they use their minds instead of their hands?

Or the person in the sheltered workshop struggling to remember how to put Tab A into Slot B as the first step to getting out of a group home and into their own place?

Or ....

MSNBC.  Mighty Stupid Nattering Blithering [as used by the Brits as opposed to American slang].

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2015, 05:55:18 PM »
My father picked cotton as a kid.  He showed me one of their old cotton sacks- the strap was tied up so a child could use it.

Some things have improved, fortunately.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2015, 05:56:52 PM »
My cotton-pickin' mother, too.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2015, 06:01:47 PM »
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2015, 06:12:43 PM »
It's not nearly as offensive as my reply were someone foolish enough to say that to my face.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2015, 08:25:48 PM »
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2015, 08:26:58 PM »
Because no one should actually have to do productive work... right?

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2015, 08:59:50 PM »
Can anyone point out to me where there exists in the Constitution,  the Bill of Rights, the other Amendments, any statute (federal or state) which gives anyone a right to not be offended?  I am so sick of this crap.  Our court administrator has asked us to stop using certain terms...criminal, thief, addict...There's a list I threw in the trash....because they offend people in hearings and he got complaints from some people, including family of some offenders facing charges.  Crap!  Commit a crime, you're a criminal.  Steal, you're a thief.  It's crap, and it's getting beyond stupid.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2015, 09:08:58 PM »
Quote from: Chris on October 27, 2015, 08:59:50 PM
It's crap, and it's getting beyond stupid.

I'm actually surprised that there hasn't been a backlash from most segments of society to end this nonsense. I would have expected that to happen at least several years ago, but this crap only keeps getting worse and worse. It's beyond what I would expect even most progressives would put up with, but I guess I'm wrong, because they're still putting up with it, if not outright embracing it.

I want one of those shirts from Bedlamite's link. I think ridicule is the best defense outside of ignoring them.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2015, 09:10:05 PM »
Irony:

Offenders complaining they are offended.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2015, 09:15:17 PM »
Quote from: Ben on October 27, 2015, 09:08:58 PM
I'm actually surprised that there hasn't been a backlash from most segments of society to end this nonsense. I would have expected that to happen at least several years ago, but this crap only keeps getting worse and worse. It's beyond what I would expect even most progressives would put up with, but I guess I'm wrong, because they're still putting up with it, if not outright embracing it.

I want one of those shirts from Bedlamite's link. I think ridicule is the best defense outside of ignoring them.

The problem is not that the semi reasonable progressives are embracing it. The problem is that the ones that would fight it have been scared silent. They don't like it, but they have no clue how to fight the backlash when they get caught in the trap.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #19 on: October 27, 2015, 09:50:17 PM »
Quote from: Chris on October 27, 2015, 08:59:50 PM
Our court administrator has asked us to stop using certain terms...criminal, thief, addict...There's a list I threw in the trash....because they offend people in hearings and he got complaints from some people, including family of some offenders facing charges. 


 :rofl:  Tell me they fired this cretin! Please!
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #20 on: October 27, 2015, 10:19:09 PM »
Quote from: bluestarlizzard on October 27, 2015, 04:27:37 PM
And for extra bonus points, I made that reply, flipped over to my FB and was accused of making a microagggression in a comment I made. Awesomesauce!

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2015, 10:22:53 PM »
Quote from: fistful on October 27, 2015, 09:50:17 PM

 :rofl:  Tell me they fired this cretin! Please!

People like that don't get fired, they get promoted.
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2015, 08:20:01 AM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on October 27, 2015, 10:22:53 PM
People like that don't get fired, they get promoted.

*expletive deleted*ck up, move up!
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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2015, 08:27:55 AM »
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There are five things, above all else, that make life worth living: a good relationship with God, a good woman, good health, good friends, and a good cigar.

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Re: "Hard Worker" is Now an Offensive Term
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2015, 08:28:37 AM »
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426116/word-too-sexist-huffington-post-article

Apparently "too" is also offensive.

I'm sorry, but it requires me to be too much of a hard worker to avoid offending these politically correct morons.  
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