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So this thing about Minnesota renaming Asian Carp to Invasive Carp has pushed me over the breaking point.
It's along similar "thinking" as the ordeal people are going through with the Confederate flag.
There's an Alabama town planning on demolishing a Confederate memorial because it's "offensive."
The Confederate issue is nothing but revisionist history at work. Let's take slavery and the Civil War out of our books, and out of peoples' minds, and it will all go away. Let's completely forget that the Civil war was pretty much about a perception of a federal government exceeding its limits (sound familiar?) rather than slavery per se. If we completely remove the Civil War and slavery from history, then blacks (sorry, African-Americans) suddenly become fully endowed humans with nothing to complain about??? Is that what it takes??? How ignorant can you get?
Speaking of ignorance, some time back I saw a sports report on Lewis Hamilton's first World Championship, where the reporter called him the first African-American to win the World Championship.
See, in America we don't say "black" any more, because that's offensive. We call black people (those of the race once know as "Negro" until that was deemed offensive) African-Americans, even though while American, they are not African. Of course, Mr. Hamilton is not American, either.
We even have kids in Spanish class start laughing when they learn the Spanish word for the color black.......
I mean, seriously. A fish called "Asian" because that's where it's from can't be called Asian because an Asian-descended human might be offended??!?!?!?!
I have an idea: if you don't want to offend someone with what you say, then simply STFU!!!!!!
It's along similar "thinking" as the ordeal people are going through with the Confederate flag.
There's an Alabama town planning on demolishing a Confederate memorial because it's "offensive."
The Confederate issue is nothing but revisionist history at work. Let's take slavery and the Civil War out of our books, and out of peoples' minds, and it will all go away. Let's completely forget that the Civil war was pretty much about a perception of a federal government exceeding its limits (sound familiar?) rather than slavery per se. If we completely remove the Civil War and slavery from history, then blacks (sorry, African-Americans) suddenly become fully endowed humans with nothing to complain about??? Is that what it takes??? How ignorant can you get?
Speaking of ignorance, some time back I saw a sports report on Lewis Hamilton's first World Championship, where the reporter called him the first African-American to win the World Championship.
See, in America we don't say "black" any more, because that's offensive. We call black people (those of the race once know as "Negro" until that was deemed offensive) African-Americans, even though while American, they are not African. Of course, Mr. Hamilton is not American, either.
We even have kids in Spanish class start laughing when they learn the Spanish word for the color black.......
I mean, seriously. A fish called "Asian" because that's where it's from can't be called Asian because an Asian-descended human might be offended??!?!?!?!
I have an idea: if you don't want to offend someone with what you say, then simply STFU!!!!!!