CNN.com highlights a list of racist stuff you say all the time — words and phrases that evoke our history of chattel slavery. Should we break these verbal links to our racist past?
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Not to mention that one of the first two women accepted for membership at Augusta National was Condoleeza Rice.
I wonder if the author who scribbled this inane article has has a master’s degree in journalism…
Trying to de-colorize language because there are people who are that color is ridiculous. Redlining has nothing to do with indians) it’s the color pen they used, just as “in the black” has nothing to do with black people, it refers to the color ink that was used to represent profits.
Bill, you talk about people today making demands for something they never suffered from those who never oppressed them. When I heard these demands, especially for reparations, I always wonder who will pay reparations to the descendants of those who died fighting to free the slaves?
Bill, you are correct in that this trend has no stopping point because those who seek to tear down language do not create, they only destroy, and those who can only destroy are never satisfied.
This whole conversation is making me feel gypped.
Black ball actually comes from the voting procedures used by freemasons. They would have a secret ballot cast with marbles, white marbles voted for and black marbles against hence the term black balled.
Master : Primary :: Slave : Secondary. It’s still divisive no matter how you slice it.
So if I have a question on gardening, do I ask the guy next door or a certified Master Gardener I know? How about having a beautiful custom table made? The guy who fixed my picket fence or the Master Carpenter who has a column in a local publication? These terms mean something. And a master bedroom is usually the largest, has the best view, and, depending on the house, may have an attached bathroom. Who knows what a “principal bedroom” is? Talk about a discussion to be had only in the most privileged nation on earth!
I always thought “master bedroom” was for the master (or mistress) of the house or building and that was why it was the largest or finest appointed. I would also bet that if the smarty type person of the fish wrapper did a little more research we might find that this usage of the term in earlier english than what we have now is why it was later used for slave owners as well. The master of a ship, master of the skills of a trade, and all the rest flow together and just pick one more meaning.
Since my mother is one, I would suggest you speak to a master gardener if you have one.
What a load! Cable now has showings from the “Black Lives MatterCollection”, Colon Kapernick, Give us Texas, Kiss our boots, Nike, Disney, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, no end in sight. The farther you stretch this crap the more violent the snap back will be.
I’m from and live in the Deep South, yet when I hear or see terms like Master’s Degree or Master’s Tournament, I don’t immediately think of them in terms of slavery. I think of them as they originated way back in the past, when there were Apprentices; Journeymen; Experts; Artisans; and Masters as descriptions of what level a person was in their specific craft or profession. It was obvious to me that after Barack H. Obama (alias King Urkel) was elected that our country was inundated with thoughts of racism and slavery, etc. This has been an intentional campaign to perform mind control on an entire nation and I’m pretty damned sick and tired of it. We in the South have learned many hard lessons over the years on how to live in peace with each other and, as far as I can tell, we are the only place that anything close to that peace still exists. We learned our lessons. Now it’s time for the rest of the country to learn them and realize the reason why they need to, and that is the ongoing efforts of our elite “betters” in positions of authority to control us.
I disagree that they have a point on blacklist, whitelist, etc. Fear of the dark goes way back in all races long before slaves or anything like modern language existed.
Dark literature has nothing to do with race, it has to do with fear of the unknown via being unseeable. White represents light, which we like because it allows us to see things.
Never once in my life did I ever associate something black or dark in that context as having been derived from race. It’s silly.
As far as i have been able to find blacklist comes from at least as early as the 1590s there is written a black book which was a list of people who had been found objectionable or were to be punished or shunned by writers of the book(list)
Oh oh…Now what am I going to do with my MASTERS degree in non binary medieval poetry?…
Give me my damn fries!
Please, and thank you!
This is all a ploy to “amend” some of those pesky historical facts.
I must disagree with Bill. There is no case against terms like blacklist, whitelist, etc. Blacklist is akin to what government censors do to redacted documents — they print black ink over information that is deemed to be unfit for public consumption. Whitelist is just using the color opposite to indicate open access. The analogy is a direct consequence that humans cannot see in darkness (i.e., black) — we require l light (i.e., white). Such politically-correct pandering is all just a pile of excrement.
Bill: “Everybody has a grandfather…think about it…”
If you don’t have two grandfathers, you likely have problems bigger than questionable terminology.
Maybe we should just go back to grunting.
Hmmph!
I think the media beat us to the punch when it comes to grunting.
Elimination of all master craftsmen will be a loss for everyone.
Elimination of master craftsmen will occur naturally when those who believe 2+2 does not equal 4 take over the crafts.
I am deeply offended when someone is offended about something and thinks that gives them a right to control my thoughts, words, and actions. That means my offence is held to be irrelevant but their feeling of offence is to be the totally controlling factor. Their offence cannot be questioned but I am held as guilty as charged simply BECAUSE I was charged.
I object!
You’re right. It’s not really about offense, it’s about control. The left is using their Orwell for Dummies manual to control the population.
I also object — not because I am offended but because I am incensed at the hubris of those who strive without consent to control my life. I refuse to be controlled and say what and how I wish.
Molon Labe applies to words as well as arms.
Yup. The concept that one narrative is automatically privileged over all others and should therefore be given the only consideration has a term, too: fascism.
Antaine, it’s the same concept behind “my truth” and underlying the gender debate–that one person’s subjective view of the world is more important than A) your subjective view and B) an objective view of the world.