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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 7/22/19, 7:56 am

Hello. Let’s stop calling racist people, racist chants, racist tweets, and other things “racially charged” or “racial”? Can we stop pretending groping or unwanted kissing, especially but not exclusively in the workplace, is just “incidents”? Euphemisms help us get through conversations that we don’t really want to have. But for journalists and for HR people, these conversations need to be clear.

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  1. 1

    Fleetwood Mac spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 9:08 am

    Monday mornin’ you sure look fine

    Friday I got travelin’ on my mind!

  2. 2

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 10:13 am

    “Racially charged” and “inappropriate” are the magic words used to normalize the GOP transformation to fascism. The normalization is necessary because giant media companies depend upon an older white Republican audience to sell dick pills, mutual funds, and Werther’s Originals.

    Change the channel. Cut the cable. Ask the bartender to change the channel. Don’t just ignore it and shrug. Stop patronizing businesses who openly seek to normalize violent hatred and bigotry. They are going after our fellow citizens now. Our neighbors, friends, and co-workers. And these media companies are entirely complicit. And not unwittingly so. It’s a conscious business decision they are making to hold onto a certain audience demographic. For that, they are actually willing to see a few people attacked, burned out, driven out, etc. It “concerns” them.

    But after all, it’s not as if they themselves are the ones burning crosses on lawns. They are just reporting on it. And dutifully including the cross-burner’s “point of view”.

  3. 3

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 12:35 pm

    ‘Our paychecks bounced’: US workers in limbo as coalmines suddenly close
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/22/blackjewel-mines-shut-down-layoffs-future
    Blackjewel files for chapter 11 in a move critics say is increasingly used to avoid paying workers what they are owed

    Since Trump took office, about 2,000 jobs have been added to the coal industry, which currently employs an estimated 53,000 workers. The industry has shed more than 30,000 jobs in the past decade, driven by automation and changes in the energy industry, as renewable sources recently surpassed coal production for the first time ever in the US, and natural gas production hit a record high in 2018.

    One of the largest coalmining operators in the United States, Blackjewel abruptly shut its mines after filing for bankruptcy, jeopardizing the jobs of about 1,700 workers in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Wyoming.

    2,000 – 1,700 so trump is down to +300 jobs?

    They should have voted for democrats to have some sort of safety net when the coal mines went bankrupt. Oh well. Hope that means it’s another 1,700 votes for Democrats , but not holding my breath.

    Bonus: Watch the conservative racist incel attempt to project welching on debts on progressives. Isn’t he infamous for not paying up on a debt here?

  4. 4

    Elijah Dominic McDotcomc spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 2:11 pm

    3,
    Something tells me conservative racist incel has been stealing tips from waitresses since junior high.

  5. 5

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 6:52 pm

    “Two Louisiana policemen have been fired over a Facebook post that suggested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) should be shot ― one of the officers wrote the menacing message and the other ‘liked’ it.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana-police-officers-fired-for-facebook-post-suggesting-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-be-shot_n_5d361bcde4b0419fd3315ffe

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: As I’ve been saying, some people shouldn’t be cops, and police departments have hired the wrong people and need to do some weeding out.

    And if that makes me a “motherfucker” (or whatever he called me) in Doctor Dumbfuck’s eyes, so be it. Nobody here respects his opinion anyway, because he’s a dumbfuck.

  6. 6

    A1 spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 8:00 pm

    Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Everybody Is Racist But Us History Channel: Great Moments In Demorat Racebaiting- Demorat Conspiracy Loon Brands All Trump Supporters Racist-
    —————————————
    On Thursday morning, CNN’s New Day continued the nearly week long “President Trump is a racist” media storm. One of the liberal journalist guests on the program went further, smearing all Trump supporters as racists.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/joseph-chalfant/2019/07/18/cnn-guest-trump-supporters-fall-category-white-supremacy

  7. 7

    RedReformed spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 8:02 pm

    What it’s like talking to a trumper:
    …
    Trumper: Obama built the cages, i never notice what color people are,, Why do you???
    RedReformed: Because there are not Irish or Russian people in those cages. Republicans are not trying to find those people. Just the scary brown ones.
    Trumper: How do ypu know what color they are, or are you doing a cnn thing and just guessing?
    RedReformed: Yes, I can look at the photos. They are brown christian asylum seekers feeling death in in their home countries.
    Trumper: Are you sure their not Russians with a sun tan, send their asses back to where they come from, i don’t want my tax money wasted on them.

  8. 8

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 9:48 pm

    “I could win the war in Afghanistan in ten days by wiping it off the map because I have Nuclear weapons and what’s 10,000,000 people? I don’t want to go that route but they weren’t born in the right part of the world so no one will care. Fifth avenue.”

  9. 9

    I’llHaveAPilsner spews:

    Monday, 7/22/19 at 11:11 pm

    Will someone PLEASE for the love of God explain to Donald that Cashmere and Kashmir are not the same thing.

    The profound ignorance, it’s a feature not a bug.

  10. 10

    Trump's weird little penis spews:

    Tuesday, 7/23/19 at 12:29 am

    Cashmere?
    Like where that nasty candy is made?

    SHITHOLE! Full of Mexicans!

    MAGA!

  11. 11

    TeaFascist spews:

    Tuesday, 7/23/19 at 2:37 am

    Increase federal spending by over 300 billion? Yessire! Thank You Sir! May I have another!

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