Uncle Joe

[DCHawk1]

Welp...

I tried to be kind about it, but that skirt makes you look fat.

[KUTradition]

[DCHawk1]

THAT'S why you need the mirror.

[twocoach]

virtually no one cares

ramalamadingdong: supported by 3.1%…of pubs

If Cankles and DeFacist can get nicknames, then giving a non-race specific nickname to this Presidential candidate isn't racist.

[twocoach]

Vivek calling out bidens latest bullshit

How is it bullshit? Because some guy who benefits from calling anything he does "bullshit" said so?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/1 ... 20Thursday.

It seems to be in response to the extended amount of time that active troops have been deployed in Europe as a means to ease that extended period of time while giving these reservists some support as they would be treated as active if deployed.

Not everything is a giant conspiracy or sign of problems. Sometimes it's just the guy in the Big Chair having to do things to manage what is needed.

[DCHawk1]

Amember when saying Obama had big ears was racist?

I do.

[KUTradition]

cool story; thanks for sharing

[DCHawk1]

You made the rules.

Fatty.

[KUTradition]

did i?

never knew i had such power

thanks for pointing it out; glad you’re justheretohelp

[JKLivin]

Amember when saying Obama had big ears was racist?

I do.

True story.

[KUTradition]

i did that

you’re welcome

[DCHawk1]

did i?

never knew i had such power

thanks for pointing it out; glad you’re justheretohelp

For chrissake, will you cover yourself!

[KUTradition]

like i said, you’re welcome

[Shirley]

You can't deny his ears are big, Trad:

[KUTradition]

“colored people”

he just misspoke, lol

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I'll be that guy who asks....
Why is there such a big difference between saying people of color and saying colored people?

[randylahey]

Vivek calling out bidens latest bullshit

Hi, still waiting for you to tell me the significance of LEOs being in the insurrection mobs.

There no reasoning with you. Make of it what you will. Anyone with an unbiased brain knows the left maximized and milked 1/6 for all it was worth. They let it happen to use it politically. Enticed it

[randylahey]

Vivek calling out bidens latest bullshit

How is it bullshit? Because some guy who benefits from calling anything he does "bullshit" said so?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/1 ... 20Thursday.

It seems to be in response to the extended amount of time that active troops have been deployed in Europe as a means to ease that extended period of time while giving these reservists some support as they would be treated as active if deployed.

Not everything is a giant conspiracy or sign of problems. Sometimes it's just the guy in the Big Chair having to do things to manage what is needed.

OK. Let's hear your reasons for why this is a good thing?

[KUTradition]

I'll be that guy who asks....
Why is there such a big difference between saying people of color and saying colored people?

i’ve wondered that myself

but, it’s not my place to judge such a thing

[Shirley]

It's complicated: (This article is available publicly,NPR, and what comes before and after this is instructive.)

3/30/2014 The Journey From 'Colored' To 'Minorities' To 'People Of Color'

"Person" or "people" as a term for human beings, that's pretty much uncontroversial. But color — which can be used as a noun, an adjective or a verb (transitive and intransitive) — is a word packed with history, prejudice and confusion when it's used to describe someone's complexion as an indication of race or ethnicity.

The adjective form — "colored" — we hardly need the OED to confirm, but it says the term is now:

"Usually considered offensive ... Coloured was adopted in the United States by emancipated slaves as a term of racial pride after the end of the American Civil War. It was rapidly replaced from the late 1960s as a self-designation by black and later by African-American, although it is retained in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In Britain it was the accepted term for black, Asian, or mixed-race people until the 1960s."

In a 1988 New York Times column about the phrase, the late great language maven William Safire pointed out that Martin Luther King Jr. referred to "citizens of color" in his speech at the 1963 March on Washington. Safire also quoted an NAACP spokesman:

" 'Times change and terms change. Racial designations go through phases; at one time Negro was accepted, at an earlier time colored and so on. This organization has been in existence for 80 years and the initials NAACP are part of the American vocabulary, firmly embedded in the national consciousness, and we feel it would not be to our benefit to change our name.' "
Safire continued in that 1988 essay:

"Colored people (which in South Africa means 'people of racially mixed ancestry') has in the United States a connotation different from people of color. ... Colored is often taken as a slur, even when not so intended, and so this term — first used with this meaning in 1611 by the historian John Speed as 'coloured countenances' — is better replaced by its synonym as noun and adjective, black. People of color, on the other hand, is a phrase encompassing all nonwhites. ... When used by whites, people of color usually carries a friendly and respectful connotation, but should not be used as a synonym for black; it refers to all racial groups that are not white."

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