You never know where the next offender against PC sensibilities will come from. It’s not just for shock jocks anymore.
41 Replies to “Insulted by a sofa”
Wow.
Well. It DID come from China.
Is anyone really surprised at that?
She should keep the sofa. Just because some dummy in China felt that “nigger-brown” was an appropriate description does not necessarily cry racism.
I’d put it down to ignorance and nothing more and then I’d move along.
I remember seeing a woman who had bought a pair of pants made in China and found a label stitched inside that was in…Mandarin? Anyway she was curious what it said and took it to a friend of hers and he translated it as a curse on her health. Weird, eh?
Like I said. It DID come from China.
een
“Moore said she’s not sure she wants the sofa set in her home.
“Every time I sit on it, I’ll think of that,” she said.”
Good God! Just tear off the damned label, throw it in the garbage where it belongs, and get on with your life! And maybe even enjoy your new furniture. Sheesh!
The Middle Kingdom mentality
At last China’s culture of racism is being contested by Chinese
Martin Jacques
Saturday April 16, 2005
…
One way of taking the temperature in China is the internet, a very important indicator of public opinion in a country where more traditional media are tightly controlled. The importance of – and recent upsurge in – nationalism, for example, has found powerful expression on Chinese websites. The internet response to Rice’s visit has been revealing. The racist character of much of it has moved liberals to protest, most significantly Liu Xiaobo, a veteran critic of mass movements in China since Tiananmen, who has written a response on the New Century Net website.
He says that of 800 messages he has read about her visit, no less than 70 involved racist comments about her colour: of these, only two were relatively moderate; the rest were vicious, describing Rice as a “black ghost”, “black dog”, “black woman” and “black bitch”. One stated, “You are not even like a black ghost, a really low form of life,” and another, “Her brain is even more black than her skin.” One writer said: “I don’t support racism, but this black ghost really makes people angry, the appearance of a little black who has made good.”
In fact, the reaction is not that surprising. Although it is rarely written about or commented upon, Chinese culture remains deeply racist. For the most part, the Chinese are in denial of their own racism, while white commentators, in their great majority, are either oblivious of it, or simply regard it as unimportant.
…
Hong Kong was a British colony for almost 150 years and yet the racist attitude of the Chinese there towards people of darker skin was virtually never remarked upon. Needless to say, the British made no attempt to introduce anti-racist legislation.
Chinese people commonly believe they are superior to those of darker skin. The attitude towards whites, as Liu points out in his article, is much more complex. They tend to acknowledge the historical achievements of the west, but at the same time resent western hegemony and despise aspects of western culture, many believing that at some point in the future the innate virtue of Chinese civilisation will again assert itself. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1461208,00.html
This horrible! Where do I call to complain about the fact Home Depot is advertising white paint for sale?Or brown for that matter.And who should I be suing about “Oreo” cookies?
She is upset about teaching her daughter history? But not upset that she is a hyphenated person,which is offensive to me? Arrrggghhhh.PC’ness can be so stupid!
Official: China has no racial discrimination http://www.chinaview.cn 2007-03-29 23:35:25
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) — All ethnic groups in China are equal and no racial discrimination exists, Dainzhub Ongboin, vice director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC), said on Thursday.
“China’s ethnic groups enjoy equal status and live in harmony. There is no discrimination (directed at any ethnicity),” Dainzhub, who is of Tibetan origin, said at a press conference in response to a Reuters reporter who asked whether racial discrimination existed in Chinese society.
Justthinkin: Would you feel any differently if Home Depot called it “Cracker-ass Cracker White”? };O)
…I’m just waiting for the day when Arnold Schwarzenegger changes his name to Arnold Schwartz or something..
Get a lawyer, lady, this ought to be worth a few bucks. Maybe the city of Toronto should give her, oh, 100 thousand for her hurt feelings, it was sold in their city, after all.
Nothing soothes hurt feelings like money.
“Cracker-ass, Cracker white” should be worth in the 50k range, as white folks are not as deeply sensitive as persons of color. JT, call your lawyer. Litigation makes the world go ’round.
Maybe this will encourage Crayola to introduce a new color to it’s line of crayons.
Yes dmorris.Litigation does seem to be the way.I am surprised this lady hasn’t thought of that yet!Ummmmmmm.Maybe I should go sue Avon for selling suntan products,as we all know how harmful suntannig is!
At the risk of getting redundant; this surreal “race” reaction has been conditioned in it’s owner by one of the primary “transnational Progressivist” NGOs pushing the tranzie agenda in America; The NAACP and the ACLU have cultured a atmosphere of militant multicult and established an intolerant tyranny of the monority.
Now unless there is proof of some vast KKK conspiracy to Hijack the labeling process of sofa manufacturers to spread racial hate, this “complaint” has about as much validity as Al Gore’s electric bills.
BUT in the tranzie atmosphere of multicult tyranny, legal tennets and fairness are reverted…even ignored…as are reason and reality…baseless law suits and legal repression is the “new freedom” offered by the Tranzie egalitarian dytopia..which wrenches NGO power from racial/ethnic balkanization of society.
I see this person complaining comes from the US “Mosh-pit” of frivilous NAACP/ACLU law suits and probably is motivated more by the smell of money than any real personal indignation.
The fact this even gets space in a Canadian broadsheet says a lot about how far we have descended down the rabbit hole of civilly self destructive Tanzie PC.
If any court official gives this woman a second look as a serious litigant with a case, we may as well engage in anarchy because there is no rational rule of law in effect in this nation any more.
“”In this day and age, that’s totally unacceptable,” Moore said.
Douglas explained the origins of the word to daughter Olivia, telling how it was a bad name that blacks were called during the days of slavery in the United States.”
LOL…it’s also a name that black rappers call blacks in that cultural vernacular….Moore will have a hard time sanitizing black culture/art forms to keep her kids pure in respect to hearing the “N” word tossed around as a derrogatory term.
Hey that gives me an Idea…now what makes Christie think it can sell boxes of biscuits with the slur “craker” written all over them…don’t they know that’s insulting to white people???
Smell a law suit here people?..anyone else want a piece of this? 🙂
would the lable be acceptable if it was another black person who came up with the name. I also wonder if this lady has been in the paper showing equal “outrage” at Toronto radio stations that play rap music by “artists” who use the same word in their rap songs.
Liberals like most socialists reject the U.S. Constitution tyhey dont beleive in it unless they can interpate it for some crazy reason
Well, what did she expect it when it was billed as part of the new Don Imus @ Home line?
I’m with Dave and bdogginit. Grow up for cripes sakes. Throw the stinking label in the garbage, the same place her own cry baby double standard belongs (e.g. it’s ok for black rappers to scream the ‘n’ word all over the airwaves but you can’t friggin sleep if you see it printed on a furniture label). While she’s at it….this lady could get a life, for her child’s sake if not her own.
This is indeed unacceptable in our society. Not being an expert on indo-china, I cannot comment on the meaning from their prospective. If it was an insult…..rip the damn tag off and do not buy from the company that sells that brand of furniture. Crying to the media because of hurt feelings is just another way to garner attention. Suck it up and carry on. Whining to the media will not change a biggots thoughts…..all this story does is high light this type of behaviour…..in a way, Torstar is encouraging biggotry, by printing and sensationalizing this story..
This is the one that offends me. Here, have a seat.
I used to by niger (one g) seeds for the feeders at my local hardware store. Would you believe that in the last couple of years, the labels read “nydger”! How stupidly PC can it go?
Jesse Jackson… Al Sharpton… we have an urgent matter up in Canada. Can you two get on the next flight out? Pack a parka!
http://www.danwei.org/advertising_and_marketing/whitee_and_darkie.php
“”And then there is Darlie toothpaste, which used to be called Darkie and is still known as Black Person Toothpaste (hei ren yagao) in Chinese.”
Settle down folks, only white people can be racist, it say so on page 3,578,980 of the Politically Correct Thinkers Handbook.
If anyone has ever tried to follow the “how to use” directions or the assembly directions for something from China, they should know it can sometimes be quite frustrating given the grammar and spelling mistakes. This was probably a spelling mistake on the part of the Chinese worker preparing the labels for “Niger Brown” Quit trying to play the victim game and crying “racial slur”, somebody hurt my feelings mommy and called ME a bad name. Grow up, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me” Get a life. Don’t you occasionally make a spelling error. Careful what you say and write, someone may take it the wrong way and accuse you of being a racsist.
Kate,
Good find.
Dave at 1027h, I agree. Some people just need to take the PC chip off their shoulder.
The fact that she then made her child afraid of the word is sad. She is perpetuating a victim mentality with her home & family.
Tomm
IT*s just a spelling error. Tempest in a teapot. Too much time on some peoples hands.
The colour is Niger Brown. An adult would have snipped the label and tossed it in with the potato peelings. = TG
If her sofa came from China, this perhaps suggests that she has a niggardly home furnishing budget.
“Niger” was a euphemism. “Nigger-brown” used to refer to an actual shade of brown. Personally, taking offence at taking offence at the n-word indicates that many here don’t have a problem with the latter. If not using the word makes me “politically correct,” so be it. Better than being a bigot.
I have some sympathy for this lady but do think she should make her complaint to the offending company and move on.
As an observant, of British ancestry Christian, tell me about slurs–and not the out-of-sight furniture label kind. How about up front, in your face, you-get-outta-here type? The PC jackboot types in this society only protect certain groups–Danish cartoons, anyone? Any real or perceived slight directed at the favoured groups–I don’t belong to any. Whoops! I do. I belong to an “oppressed” gender–is treated with the utmost gravity and kid gloves.
I wonder if the Star will print my angst the next time MY race and/or religion is under attack. (I think I know the answer to that one. And I don’t–won’t, actually–bother to read the Star. What a rag.)
Wonder if the couch comes in” Gook-yellow as well??…
As a white Anglo I can’t think of anything anyone anywhere could say that would insult me or my race or colour. What is it with people that are continually insulted? Are they inferior? Is it that certain people make a living from the victim/caring/indignation industry and actually promote it?
If I got a couch called “Honkey White” I would have my friends over for a hell of a laugh. How about a coffee table in trash white.
I think people that are insulted need counseling.
Well with all that said, I am proud to be a redneck! and no offence taken for calling me such.
LOL!
Western Canadian, I mentioned two categories: race, but not colour. You’ve disregarded the other category I mentioned.
Yes, I get quite annoyed that the British, “white man’s” political and judicial legacy, exported to many of the most successful, present day democracies, is presented in Canadian history books as both oppressive and inferior to the hunter-gatherer systems which pre-dated it. Talk about magic thinking.
This kind of lie is vile and undermines the very foundation of our society. Certainly, when we’re seriously under attack by the extremists in the Muslim world, it’s not a good idea to give up on one’s own culture. (Which, BTW, is a pretty good one–even demonstrably superior, I’d say–as far as cultures go.) The lies about and degradation of our own, “white” culture goes way beyond insulting.
Like you, I’d probably have a good laugh at something as trivial as the colour on a couch label. But, as I’ve said, we’ve gone far beyond that.
Complain? Don’t worry. I don’t: in Canada in 2007, to whom? The Charter doesn’t protect white, British ancestry Christians because we’re not included in any bona fide “victim” category. And, yes, this unjust reverse discrimination–meted out to the descendents of the people who built this country to be the kind of place to which oppressed peoples have flocked for centuries–makes me pretty angry.
P.S. Wetern Canadian, you wrote, “As a white Anglo I can’t think of anything anyone anywhere could say that would insult me or my race or colour.”
‘Changed your mind?
*************And, yes, this unjust reverse discrimination************
reverse discrimination?????
there is no such thing
there is only discrimination, period, think about it
No, GYM: YOU think about it. (But thinking doesn’t seem to be your strong suit, does it? See what I have to say about other sophistries of yours at another thread.)
Reverse discrimination is very real and is actually an entry in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2001, at page 1234:
“reverse discrimination n. discrimination against men or white people that results from policies intended to end discrimination against women or racial minorities.”
I think the definition is narrow, but generally accurate.
The Charter has been used by our courts and Human Rights (sic) Commissions to enforce reverse discrimination over and over again. (Many of these cases have involved Christianity–never Muslim, Jewish, or other traditional religious groups–and homosexuality, which is why I believe the definition is narrow.)
Your narrow mindedness, ignorance, and lack of reasoning capabilities–sorry, but that’s what your posts display–are irritating, to say the least. If I were you, I’d be embarrassed, but that’s probably not an emotion an entitled, unconscious–as in not self-perceptive–person like you is likely to experience. Too bad, because such feedback might help you to challenge yourself to think both more realistically and logically.
Being “offended” has become a national pastime in the US and now in Canada. Ho Hum. Victimhood is now the most cherished and sought after personal position. Does anybody actually care anymore? Personally, I have a major case of victim fatigue.
The fact that some people go overboard on political correctness does not mean that there are never legitimate reasons for being offended. It is easy to see why Ms. Moore would be offended and she has every right to be. The store should offer to replace the sofa, and the manufacturer ought to pick up the tab.
Well, yes, Katherine, I care. That is, if people truly ARE being victimized, as a number of men and, let’s say, Christians are today.
I agree that the “usual suspect” victims have become tiresome and annoying–all allowed by Canada’s PC
dispensation. Challenging political correctness should certainly be part of any conscientious, principled Canadian’s agenda.
It’s definitely not a good idea to become too complacent about victimization because it’s still happening, but not to those who are officially sanctioned in Canada.
And we have this arrogant idea that we’re such nice people. It ain’t necessarily so.
I’m not sold on the point that the label originated in China.
Looks like the distributor or the store label to me.
I used to by niger (one g) seeds for the feeders at my local hardware store. Would you believe that in the last couple of years, the labels read “nydger”! How stupidly PC can it go?
In related news: under pressure from Al Sharpton, the country of Niger has changed its name to African-Americania.
“Nigger-brown” used to refer to an actual shade of brown.
Kind of like the “Indian Red” that used to be in the Crayola crayon line and those Laurentian coloured pencil packs, eh?
Calling GYM. Where are you?
I took the time to respond to your post. I think you owe me a response.
Wow.
Well. It DID come from China.
Is anyone really surprised at that?
She should keep the sofa. Just because some dummy in China felt that “nigger-brown” was an appropriate description does not necessarily cry racism.
I’d put it down to ignorance and nothing more and then I’d move along.
I remember seeing a woman who had bought a pair of pants made in China and found a label stitched inside that was in…Mandarin? Anyway she was curious what it said and took it to a friend of hers and he translated it as a curse on her health. Weird, eh?
Like I said. It DID come from China.
een
“Moore said she’s not sure she wants the sofa set in her home.
“Every time I sit on it, I’ll think of that,” she said.”
Good God! Just tear off the damned label, throw it in the garbage where it belongs, and get on with your life! And maybe even enjoy your new furniture. Sheesh!
The Middle Kingdom mentality
At last China’s culture of racism is being contested by Chinese
Martin Jacques
Saturday April 16, 2005
…
One way of taking the temperature in China is the internet, a very important indicator of public opinion in a country where more traditional media are tightly controlled. The importance of – and recent upsurge in – nationalism, for example, has found powerful expression on Chinese websites. The internet response to Rice’s visit has been revealing. The racist character of much of it has moved liberals to protest, most significantly Liu Xiaobo, a veteran critic of mass movements in China since Tiananmen, who has written a response on the New Century Net website.
He says that of 800 messages he has read about her visit, no less than 70 involved racist comments about her colour: of these, only two were relatively moderate; the rest were vicious, describing Rice as a “black ghost”, “black dog”, “black woman” and “black bitch”. One stated, “You are not even like a black ghost, a really low form of life,” and another, “Her brain is even more black than her skin.” One writer said: “I don’t support racism, but this black ghost really makes people angry, the appearance of a little black who has made good.”
In fact, the reaction is not that surprising. Although it is rarely written about or commented upon, Chinese culture remains deeply racist. For the most part, the Chinese are in denial of their own racism, while white commentators, in their great majority, are either oblivious of it, or simply regard it as unimportant.
…
Hong Kong was a British colony for almost 150 years and yet the racist attitude of the Chinese there towards people of darker skin was virtually never remarked upon. Needless to say, the British made no attempt to introduce anti-racist legislation.
Chinese people commonly believe they are superior to those of darker skin. The attitude towards whites, as Liu points out in his article, is much more complex. They tend to acknowledge the historical achievements of the west, but at the same time resent western hegemony and despise aspects of western culture, many believing that at some point in the future the innate virtue of Chinese civilisation will again assert itself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1461208,00.html
This horrible! Where do I call to complain about the fact Home Depot is advertising white paint for sale?Or brown for that matter.And who should I be suing about “Oreo” cookies?
She is upset about teaching her daughter history? But not upset that she is a hyphenated person,which is offensive to me? Arrrggghhhh.PC’ness can be so stupid!
Official: China has no racial discrimination
http://www.chinaview.cn 2007-03-29 23:35:25
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) — All ethnic groups in China are equal and no racial discrimination exists, Dainzhub Ongboin, vice director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC), said on Thursday.
“China’s ethnic groups enjoy equal status and live in harmony. There is no discrimination (directed at any ethnicity),” Dainzhub, who is of Tibetan origin, said at a press conference in response to a Reuters reporter who asked whether racial discrimination existed in Chinese society.
Justthinkin: Would you feel any differently if Home Depot called it “Cracker-ass Cracker White”? };O)
…I’m just waiting for the day when Arnold Schwarzenegger changes his name to Arnold Schwartz or something..
Get a lawyer, lady, this ought to be worth a few bucks. Maybe the city of Toronto should give her, oh, 100 thousand for her hurt feelings, it was sold in their city, after all.
Nothing soothes hurt feelings like money.
“Cracker-ass, Cracker white” should be worth in the 50k range, as white folks are not as deeply sensitive as persons of color. JT, call your lawyer. Litigation makes the world go ’round.
Maybe this will encourage Crayola to introduce a new color to it’s line of crayons.
Yes dmorris.Litigation does seem to be the way.I am surprised this lady hasn’t thought of that yet!Ummmmmmm.Maybe I should go sue Avon for selling suntan products,as we all know how harmful suntannig is!
At the risk of getting redundant; this surreal “race” reaction has been conditioned in it’s owner by one of the primary “transnational Progressivist” NGOs pushing the tranzie agenda in America; The NAACP and the ACLU have cultured a atmosphere of militant multicult and established an intolerant tyranny of the monority.
Now unless there is proof of some vast KKK conspiracy to Hijack the labeling process of sofa manufacturers to spread racial hate, this “complaint” has about as much validity as Al Gore’s electric bills.
BUT in the tranzie atmosphere of multicult tyranny, legal tennets and fairness are reverted…even ignored…as are reason and reality…baseless law suits and legal repression is the “new freedom” offered by the Tranzie egalitarian dytopia..which wrenches NGO power from racial/ethnic balkanization of society.
I see this person complaining comes from the US “Mosh-pit” of frivilous NAACP/ACLU law suits and probably is motivated more by the smell of money than any real personal indignation.
The fact this even gets space in a Canadian broadsheet says a lot about how far we have descended down the rabbit hole of civilly self destructive Tanzie PC.
If any court official gives this woman a second look as a serious litigant with a case, we may as well engage in anarchy because there is no rational rule of law in effect in this nation any more.
“”In this day and age, that’s totally unacceptable,” Moore said.
Douglas explained the origins of the word to daughter Olivia, telling how it was a bad name that blacks were called during the days of slavery in the United States.”
LOL…it’s also a name that black rappers call blacks in that cultural vernacular….Moore will have a hard time sanitizing black culture/art forms to keep her kids pure in respect to hearing the “N” word tossed around as a derrogatory term.
Hey that gives me an Idea…now what makes Christie think it can sell boxes of biscuits with the slur “craker” written all over them…don’t they know that’s insulting to white people???
Smell a law suit here people?..anyone else want a piece of this? 🙂
would the lable be acceptable if it was another black person who came up with the name. I also wonder if this lady has been in the paper showing equal “outrage” at Toronto radio stations that play rap music by “artists” who use the same word in their rap songs.
Liberals like most socialists reject the U.S. Constitution tyhey dont beleive in it unless they can interpate it for some crazy reason
Well, what did she expect it when it was billed as part of the new Don Imus @ Home line?
I’m with Dave and bdogginit. Grow up for cripes sakes. Throw the stinking label in the garbage, the same place her own cry baby double standard belongs (e.g. it’s ok for black rappers to scream the ‘n’ word all over the airwaves but you can’t friggin sleep if you see it printed on a furniture label). While she’s at it….this lady could get a life, for her child’s sake if not her own.
This is indeed unacceptable in our society. Not being an expert on indo-china, I cannot comment on the meaning from their prospective. If it was an insult…..rip the damn tag off and do not buy from the company that sells that brand of furniture. Crying to the media because of hurt feelings is just another way to garner attention. Suck it up and carry on. Whining to the media will not change a biggots thoughts…..all this story does is high light this type of behaviour…..in a way, Torstar is encouraging biggotry, by printing and sensationalizing this story..
This is the one that offends me. Here, have a seat.
I used to by niger (one g) seeds for the feeders at my local hardware store. Would you believe that in the last couple of years, the labels read “nydger”! How stupidly PC can it go?
Jesse Jackson… Al Sharpton… we have an urgent matter up in Canada. Can you two get on the next flight out? Pack a parka!
http://www.danwei.org/advertising_and_marketing/whitee_and_darkie.php
“”And then there is Darlie toothpaste, which used to be called Darkie and is still known as Black Person Toothpaste (hei ren yagao) in Chinese.”
Settle down folks, only white people can be racist, it say so on page 3,578,980 of the Politically Correct Thinkers Handbook.
If anyone has ever tried to follow the “how to use” directions or the assembly directions for something from China, they should know it can sometimes be quite frustrating given the grammar and spelling mistakes. This was probably a spelling mistake on the part of the Chinese worker preparing the labels for “Niger Brown” Quit trying to play the victim game and crying “racial slur”, somebody hurt my feelings mommy and called ME a bad name. Grow up, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me” Get a life. Don’t you occasionally make a spelling error. Careful what you say and write, someone may take it the wrong way and accuse you of being a racsist.
Kate,
Good find.
Dave at 1027h, I agree. Some people just need to take the PC chip off their shoulder.
The fact that she then made her child afraid of the word is sad. She is perpetuating a victim mentality with her home & family.
Tomm
IT*s just a spelling error. Tempest in a teapot. Too much time on some peoples hands.
The colour is Niger Brown. An adult would have snipped the label and tossed it in with the potato peelings. = TG
If her sofa came from China, this perhaps suggests that she has a niggardly home furnishing budget.
“Niger” was a euphemism. “Nigger-brown” used to refer to an actual shade of brown. Personally, taking offence at taking offence at the n-word indicates that many here don’t have a problem with the latter. If not using the word makes me “politically correct,” so be it. Better than being a bigot.
I have some sympathy for this lady but do think she should make her complaint to the offending company and move on.
As an observant, of British ancestry Christian, tell me about slurs–and not the out-of-sight furniture label kind. How about up front, in your face, you-get-outta-here type? The PC jackboot types in this society only protect certain groups–Danish cartoons, anyone? Any real or perceived slight directed at the favoured groups–I don’t belong to any. Whoops! I do. I belong to an “oppressed” gender–is treated with the utmost gravity and kid gloves.
I wonder if the Star will print my angst the next time MY race and/or religion is under attack. (I think I know the answer to that one. And I don’t–won’t, actually–bother to read the Star. What a rag.)
Wonder if the couch comes in” Gook-yellow as well??…
As a white Anglo I can’t think of anything anyone anywhere could say that would insult me or my race or colour. What is it with people that are continually insulted? Are they inferior? Is it that certain people make a living from the victim/caring/indignation industry and actually promote it?
If I got a couch called “Honkey White” I would have my friends over for a hell of a laugh. How about a coffee table in trash white.
I think people that are insulted need counseling.
Well with all that said, I am proud to be a redneck! and no offence taken for calling me such.
LOL!
Western Canadian, I mentioned two categories: race, but not colour. You’ve disregarded the other category I mentioned.
Yes, I get quite annoyed that the British, “white man’s” political and judicial legacy, exported to many of the most successful, present day democracies, is presented in Canadian history books as both oppressive and inferior to the hunter-gatherer systems which pre-dated it. Talk about magic thinking.
This kind of lie is vile and undermines the very foundation of our society. Certainly, when we’re seriously under attack by the extremists in the Muslim world, it’s not a good idea to give up on one’s own culture. (Which, BTW, is a pretty good one–even demonstrably superior, I’d say–as far as cultures go.) The lies about and degradation of our own, “white” culture goes way beyond insulting.
Like you, I’d probably have a good laugh at something as trivial as the colour on a couch label. But, as I’ve said, we’ve gone far beyond that.
Complain? Don’t worry. I don’t: in Canada in 2007, to whom? The Charter doesn’t protect white, British ancestry Christians because we’re not included in any bona fide “victim” category. And, yes, this unjust reverse discrimination–meted out to the descendents of the people who built this country to be the kind of place to which oppressed peoples have flocked for centuries–makes me pretty angry.
P.S. Wetern Canadian, you wrote, “As a white Anglo I can’t think of anything anyone anywhere could say that would insult me or my race or colour.”
‘Changed your mind?
*************And, yes, this unjust reverse discrimination************
reverse discrimination?????
there is no such thing
there is only discrimination, period, think about it
No, GYM: YOU think about it. (But thinking doesn’t seem to be your strong suit, does it? See what I have to say about other sophistries of yours at another thread.)
Reverse discrimination is very real and is actually an entry in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2001, at page 1234:
“reverse discrimination n. discrimination against men or white people that results from policies intended to end discrimination against women or racial minorities.”
I think the definition is narrow, but generally accurate.
The Charter has been used by our courts and Human Rights (sic) Commissions to enforce reverse discrimination over and over again. (Many of these cases have involved Christianity–never Muslim, Jewish, or other traditional religious groups–and homosexuality, which is why I believe the definition is narrow.)
Your narrow mindedness, ignorance, and lack of reasoning capabilities–sorry, but that’s what your posts display–are irritating, to say the least. If I were you, I’d be embarrassed, but that’s probably not an emotion an entitled, unconscious–as in not self-perceptive–person like you is likely to experience. Too bad, because such feedback might help you to challenge yourself to think both more realistically and logically.
Being “offended” has become a national pastime in the US and now in Canada. Ho Hum. Victimhood is now the most cherished and sought after personal position. Does anybody actually care anymore? Personally, I have a major case of victim fatigue.
The fact that some people go overboard on political correctness does not mean that there are never legitimate reasons for being offended. It is easy to see why Ms. Moore would be offended and she has every right to be. The store should offer to replace the sofa, and the manufacturer ought to pick up the tab.
Well, yes, Katherine, I care. That is, if people truly ARE being victimized, as a number of men and, let’s say, Christians are today.
I agree that the “usual suspect” victims have become tiresome and annoying–all allowed by Canada’s PC
dispensation. Challenging political correctness should certainly be part of any conscientious, principled Canadian’s agenda.
It’s definitely not a good idea to become too complacent about victimization because it’s still happening, but not to those who are officially sanctioned in Canada.
And we have this arrogant idea that we’re such nice people. It ain’t necessarily so.
I’m not sold on the point that the label originated in China.
Looks like the distributor or the store label to me.
I used to by niger (one g) seeds for the feeders at my local hardware store. Would you believe that in the last couple of years, the labels read “nydger”! How stupidly PC can it go?
In related news: under pressure from Al Sharpton, the country of Niger has changed its name to African-Americania.
“Nigger-brown” used to refer to an actual shade of brown.
Kind of like the “Indian Red” that used to be in the Crayola crayon line and those Laurentian coloured pencil packs, eh?
Calling GYM. Where are you?
I took the time to respond to your post. I think you owe me a response.