Duluth pushes to remove 'chief'
from job titles, calling it
offensive to indigenous people
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Katie Galioto
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/18/2020 1:59:02 PM
Duluth–City leaders are making a push to remove the word “chief” from job titles, calling the term offensive to indigenous people. At a news conference Wednesday, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson implored City Council members to vote to approve the change next week “so that we have more inclusive leadership and less language that is rooted in hurt and offensive, intentional marginalization.” The measure, slated to go before the council Monday night, would change Chief Administrative Officer Noah Schuchman’s title to city administrator and Chief Financial Officer Wayne Parson’s title to finance director.(Snip) Kozlowski said “chief” is used as “a racial epithet, and it turns into a microaggression.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/18/2020 2:01:50 PM (No. 448769)
That is beyond absurd. The mayor should be laughed to scorn for such idiocy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
seamusm 6/18/2020 2:02:42 PM (No. 448770)
The root of the word long predates European references to indigenous leaders. Morons.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JonR 6/18/2020 2:10:49 PM (No. 448780)
Perhaps someone should tell these blithering idiots that the word “chief” is not a Native American word! How much more stupid can these politicians get? Is there any limitation to their lack of intelligence?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/18/2020 2:17:32 PM (No. 448787)
Heap big pathetic
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/18/2020 2:18:20 PM (No. 448788)
Yet another wackjob female mayor. I seriously would have expected this to be the Onion or Babylon Bee, and would have chuckled. That it is real... I think politicians like this idiot and her whole idiot tribe of whom she could be CHIEF need to be recalled en masse.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
qr4j 6/18/2020 2:18:52 PM (No. 448789)
The leader of a group (or am I still allowed to say "tribe"?) of indigenous people was called a chief because he was the person in charge. What is a word for beyond stupidly idiotic and ridiculous? DEMOCRAT!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 6/18/2020 2:19:48 PM (No. 448791)
Wait until the mayor finds out what they call people that work for the CIA. Yikes. Someone's hair is gonna catch fire.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
droopydog 6/18/2020 2:20:29 PM (No. 448792)
I'm completely worn out. Was that their plan all along? RIP, Uncle Ben.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/18/2020 2:25:57 PM (No. 448799)
The Kansas City NFL franchise was unavailable for comment.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/18/2020 2:26:48 PM (No. 448800)
I am very tired of so many people being butt hurt over absolutely everything that is really nothing. It must suck to be these people who are afraid to think or speak without a "woke nut job" gives their approval. OMG, it really is 1984.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GO3 6/18/2020 2:31:12 PM (No. 448807)
Well, the title of Commisar is available and is very appropriate.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/18/2020 2:31:48 PM (No. 448808)
Dear Mayor Larson:
You are stupid AF.
Contemptuously,
Zoidberg
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
beancounter 6/18/2020 2:32:53 PM (No. 448810)
I wonder what they will replace it with. Boss? Head? Maybe it says in the article, but I’m blocked by the paywall.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/18/2020 2:33:56 PM (No. 448813)
I thought it was honoring them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/18/2020 2:37:01 PM (No. 448817)
Stupidity is far more dangerous then CV-19. So why not change Chief to Big Kahuna.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 6/18/2020 2:48:08 PM (No. 448827)
I guess Maxwell Smart was a racist also. "Sorry about that, Chief" will now have to be expunged from the Get Smart tapes.
What an asinine, sick group of people finding offense about everything in life. Emily Larson needs to get a life.
This virtue signaling garbage needs to stop. This is insanity on steroids.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/18/2020 2:50:09 PM (No. 448832)
#2 is correct. The English word and meaning of "chief" dates back to the 1300s, before the discovery of America. It is derived from the French word "chef," which goes back to the 10th century. A chief justice is often addressed as "chief" by lower court judges, just as the chief of police is addressed as "chief" by officers of a lower rank. In the military, Naval chief petty officers and Army warrant officers (2-5) are addressed informally as "chief." I am always amazed that so many do-gooders foolishly display their ignorance when they object to something as offensive.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 6/18/2020 2:50:15 PM (No. 448833)
You took the words out of my mouth No.5–another female and DEMOCRAT mayor showing that she is the virtuous one in an out of the way city. Sorry Duluthians, but being on the far western shore of Lake Superior is kinda out of the way. Madame mayor is a fool looking for some attention.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
leonardo 6/18/2020 2:52:18 PM (No. 448836)
If this BS doesn't STOP, we will destroy ourselves ... exactly what the despicable LEFT wants.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Right Time 6/18/2020 2:56:52 PM (No. 448842)
Who is going to tell Chief Justice Roberts that he has been demoted?
And surely our Navy will demote Chief Petty Officers to Superior Petty Officers
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
tsquare 6/18/2020 3:00:32 PM (No. 448848)
#17...chief goes back to old french, is derived from vulgar latin capum (see italian capo) and latin caput (head). As idiotic as is this duluth mayor, think of the derision of the title caput financial officer.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hershey 6/18/2020 3:02:34 PM (No. 448852)
Kozolowski, I've got your 'microagression' floating in my toilet...Minnehahahahahaha city bigwigs are at it again...
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 6/18/2020 3:04:06 PM (No. 448854)
The only racial epithet I see/hear in this article is illiterate Mayor Emily Larson.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 6/18/2020 3:16:30 PM (No. 448881)
LOL!
What's next? Lunatics in charge of the asylum.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 6/18/2020 3:36:38 PM (No. 448920)
The French Revolution ended badly - this will also.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Videodrone 6/18/2020 3:54:11 PM (No. 448945)
Once upon a time I was the Chief Engineer for the largest private television network in the world
He is more than welcome to come discuss face to face
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/18/2020 3:58:03 PM (No. 448952)
I had no idea it was possible to get offensive things removed. There are many things I find offensive and would like removed. I find CNN in hospitals and airports deeply offensive. I am not particularly fond of being referred to as cracker by blacks. I don't care much for having politics fed with sportscasts. I find the public school system offensive. I despise Democrats, hate the Mayor, County Judge, the City Council, my Congresswoman, not just their politics, but the way they dress, and talk, very offensive. Glad that we can now finally have these obnoxities removed.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Penney 6/18/2020 4:10:27 PM (No. 448965)
The pixilated socialist dems apparently won't stop their madness and end these rants until everyone on the planet is an exact replica of Marx or Lenin. Maybe Mao? How crazy boring is that? ...It ain't gonna happen, dems!
Hurry November!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 6/18/2020 4:28:28 PM (No. 448990)
Maybe 'citizen' or 'comrade' will do to replace it. /s
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 6/18/2020 5:08:24 PM (No. 449032)
Is anyone even complaining about this? Or is this yet another idiot "woke" liberal looking for something, anything, to show the world how "enlightened" she is? People like her are a perfect example of what's wrong with the country today.
You get what you vote for. To all the people of Duluth who didn't vote for this "mayor", my condolences.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
web 6/18/2020 5:10:41 PM (No. 449039)
I've got news for these ignoramases. Groups all over the world had tribes, with leaders that we referred to as "chiefs" long before Europeans came to America. White Europeans belonged to tribes, as well, Celtic, German, Franks, Goths, etc. They all had "chiefs."
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
starboard 6/18/2020 5:35:58 PM (No. 449062)
Minnesota is infested with brainless government officials. Last night I heard Mike Lindell, Mr My Pillow, say he's 99% sure he will run for governor of the state. Question...are there any Republicans there?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Norway 6/18/2020 5:38:05 PM (No. 449063)
Idiots. Chief is an English word. Native Americans didn't speak English.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/18/2020 6:04:01 PM (No. 449083)
Duluth is a great city to visit, but it's also one of the reasons Tim Walz was elected governor, even though he lost 77 of the 87 counties in Minnesota.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 6/18/2020 6:42:22 PM (No. 449119)
Has Minnesota been turned into one giant LSD experiment?
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Howabout “Overseer”? That should incite even more running in circles, hair on fire, skirts over their heads, pearl clutching, weeping and gnashing of teeth!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
pensom2 6/18/2020 6:48:49 PM (No. 449126)
Emily Dear, we'll keep the word "chief" thank you. It's not an indigenous peoples' term. If you really are motivated here, we'll let you remove the indigenous peoples' "kemosabe."
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
volksford 6/18/2020 7:00:54 PM (No. 449137)
This is long overdue...Chief Thunderthud ..Ooragnak Tribe
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
kono 6/18/2020 7:05:09 PM (No. 449141)
There are NO "indigenous" people in the Americas. Knock off that bullsquat already. EVERY human being who ever lived on these continents migrated there from somewhere else, or descended from somebody else who did.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
kono 6/18/2020 7:08:34 PM (No. 449145)
(Including the tribal people who migrated here before Europeans came. They're not indigenous, either.)
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/18/2020 7:52:55 PM (No. 449197)
The United States Navy will have multiple profane comments on this one.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
pinger 6/18/2020 8:43:04 PM (No. 449235)
The only person who would agree with her would be Perry White.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 6/18/2020 8:50:03 PM (No. 449238)
Inmates are running the asylum! And they're babies! great, big babies, with sharp teeth, and claws, raging, screaming, babies.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
pixelero 6/18/2020 10:18:13 PM (No. 449287)
The word, “chief’s,” origin is Latin, Old French and Middle English. Everybody’s insane.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/18/2020 10:27:21 PM (No. 449293)
Where does the nuttiness end? They'll probably force Indians to rename the Chief too,
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
LaVallette 6/19/2020 6:53:27 AM (No. 449468)
Another female with a bully pulpit using her feelings ambitions, false compassion and disconnect from reality and the facts on the ground in full denial of reason, logic, to proclaim division and discrimination where it does not exist. Truly it has been well said that western civilization has been going backwards since women were given the universal right to vote in one fell swoop and without any qualification, when men had to fight for it to gain the right gradually over hundreds of years. Their motions and feelings have now chased reason and logic out of the public debate arena as major political party platforms tout for the majority female vote!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Goose 6/19/2020 8:11:12 AM (No. 449563)
The mayor is also considering the renaming of Toilet Paper because its abbreviated version, TP, is an insult to the dwellings of many Plains tribes.
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Maybe the Soviets were right when they predicted the USA would balkanize out into 5 or 6 nations at some point. Notice that the crazed virtue signalers aren't demanding a drastic pay cut for themselves, in solidarity with the average income of an Indigenous-American (via Asia), or to hand their jobs over to one.