Students want the word 'black'
banned from textbooks and lectures
Telegraph [UK],
by
Craig Simpson
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
11/29/2020 9:23:23 AM
University students have demanded the word "black" be banned from lectures and textbooks amid claims it symbolises "negative situations". Undergraduates at the University of Manchester say the colour's use as an adjective is stemmed in "colonial history", which has become outdated in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. Supporters are calling for commonly used phrases such as "black sheep" to be removed from lecture slides and books, while concerns have also been raised about "blackmail" and "black market" during a student union-led audit of racism concerns on campus. The University said it is preparing to roll out new
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 11/29/2020 9:35:59 AM (No. 619147)
Insane, dangerous children. These sort of 'demands' need to be laughed at.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/29/2020 9:37:05 AM (No. 619150)
How about the word, "stupid?"
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cindiana 11/29/2020 9:39:02 AM (No. 619151)
Hopefully that applies to Black Lives Matter, too. I suggest "Lives Matter" so as not to trigger anyone. And will the word "Negro" become preferred?
29 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
kono 11/29/2020 9:40:52 AM (No. 619153)
Not even a bit of wisdom behind this latest demand (there's that word, again).
Sit down, shut up, and learn something for a change.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Petronius 11/29/2020 9:44:51 AM (No. 619159)
And I want the letter "M" stricken from the English language!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bad-hair 11/29/2020 9:48:29 AM (No. 619163)
Black has good connotations as well. If you own a business you very much want it to be in the black. Being in the red is a bad thing. Woops ! Did I just offend some indians ? Woops I mean aboriginals. Woops I mean native Americans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 11/29/2020 9:49:23 AM (No. 619164)
Fools.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 11/29/2020 9:49:57 AM (No. 619166)
How about I give you a black eye? And a bloody nose while I'm at it too!?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/29/2020 9:54:03 AM (No. 619173)
GROW UP!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 11/29/2020 9:55:26 AM (No. 619174)
Bless their hearts! Lord protect us from snowflakes who cannot even believe the truth of their own eyes. The skin of black people is not black - anymore than the skin of white people is white!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/29/2020 9:55:50 AM (No. 619175)
Oh, just grow the eff up!!!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Nimby 11/29/2020 10:02:20 AM (No. 619182)
Inmates running the asylum
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/29/2020 10:14:19 AM (No. 619194)
Then how can they "cancel" anyone who engaged in "blackface" in their past?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 11/29/2020 10:15:41 AM (No. 619196)
45 Goals of Communism... [It is truly scary how far along their path we have come...read it and weep for our Country]
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land,Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
Do away with all loyalty oaths.
Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Gain control of all student newspapers.
Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
Internationalize the Panama Canal.
Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
G-Tom 11/29/2020 10:20:39 AM (No. 619203)
Demand and be DAMNED! Gen. James Matoon Scott
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Highlander 11/29/2020 10:23:02 AM (No. 619207)
What? Black is not beautiful any more?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Moritz55 11/29/2020 10:23:28 AM (No. 619208)
While we’re at it, let’s get rid of:
White (sterile, bland, color of surrender flag)
Yellow (cowardly)
Green (envy, moldy, immature, inexperienced)
Blue (sad, snooty — as in blue blood)
Brown (...)
The list could go on and on.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Jeremiah29_11 11/29/2020 10:24:01 AM (No. 619209)
And what, little children, do you propose for the famed Black Watch regiments of England and Canada? You are beyond stupid.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DARling 11/29/2020 10:36:30 AM (No. 619215)
That's about as stupid as some woke hipster expecting me to care about his preferred pronouns.
I wonder if all of the people who waste time being offended on everyone else's behalf will wake up one day when they are old, wondering what they could have accomplished had they minded their own business and used their time wisely.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
FLCracker 11/29/2020 10:39:13 AM (No. 619217)
Well, let's just change the English word for the color that is the absence of light to the Spanish one and use THAT word when we want to indicate the color?
negromail
negro market
negro sheep
So no one will get confused, right?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
watashiyo 11/29/2020 10:47:42 AM (No. 619223)
Shut up and do some Push Ups!!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
rusino 11/29/2020 10:55:37 AM (No. 619227)
In my childhood I learned these names for different Races...Caucasian (White) Negroid (Black), Mongaloid (Asian) perhaps we should revert to these terms instead of offensive words like Black and White?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
janjan 11/29/2020 11:09:05 AM (No. 619235)
Here’s an idea. How about these know-nothing unemployable children stop ‘demanding’ ridiculously stupid things and focus on the education other people are paying for.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
marbles 11/29/2020 11:19:30 AM (No. 619240)
The university has an East African, Sudanese ,Nigerian Natural Hair society . My hair is natural, not dyed or straightened or curled. I suppose if you go far enough my ancestors can out of The Great Rift Valley in Africa. Can I be a member ? Not that I want to be one but this is ridiculous.These people are doing everything to segregate themselves..........everything that MLK fought against.These are stupid, stupid people. Our walk way is planted with black eyed susans and I have black eyed peas in the pantry.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 11/29/2020 11:47:35 AM (No. 619257)
This is what you get when the teaching profession deliberately and with malice dumbs down at least two generations of students when it comes to languages. Words have meaning, and watching these illiterate cretins show us their undergarments is really pathetic. If there can be only one thing to happen as a result of covid, it should be the entire teaching profession and their unions be brought down and crushed to rubble, never to be rebuilt.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/29/2020 11:53:10 AM (No. 619263)
Do the little racists and race baiters want black replaced with the n-word? That's what many of the snowflake antifans called black cops.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
subman47 11/29/2020 11:54:44 AM (No. 619264)
What do these brains want to call the Friday after Thanksgiving? Since we won't be able to use B***K Friday anymore, what will we call the beginning of the Christmas shopping season? Happy Friday, Sad Friday, Busy Friday, Crazy Friday? I know, we'll call it Amazon Friday. Because most people will shop on line to avoid dealing with the crazies that will be out and about. PS. Does this mean that Black Panther 2 will not be made? Wasn't The Black Panther one of the most successful movies of all time?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 11/29/2020 11:54:54 AM (No. 619265)
I've been expecting the do-gooders to force bartenders to say 'Jegro' of gin.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 11/29/2020 12:03:06 PM (No. 619281)
This University should be blacklisted.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/29/2020 12:09:41 PM (No. 619292)
yup!!! only in England, what a socialist paradise. all the freedoms granted by a democracy and all the restrictions commanded by a communist majority.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rytwng 11/29/2020 1:02:35 PM (No. 619330)
How about colored people.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
coyote 11/29/2020 1:19:04 PM (No. 619342)
Green red and pink are okay
brown and yellow are suspect
black and white we must belay
angst and censorship
that is what you can expect
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/29/2020 1:40:38 PM (No. 619355)
Go right ahead if that includes removing blacks from US universities.
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Call me cynical, but it sounds like a ploy by textbook sellers to get new business.
But if they fall for it, that means there can never be any mention of black lives matter in text books....unless they use "very dark gray" to replace the word black.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 11/29/2020 1:52:41 PM (No. 619359)
Racist colonial history? Know who used to say something like this? The Communists! This is part of their propaganda. The Communists used to criticize the west for their colonialism and imperialism. Why is Communist propaganda being taught to our children in school? Our children are being brainwashed before our eyes.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
edgar 11/29/2020 2:43:28 PM (No. 619381)
So, they finally agree. All Live Matter!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
red1066 11/29/2020 3:14:28 PM (No. 619403)
Then go back to the old names Blacks were called and see how they like that.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 11/29/2020 3:32:43 PM (No. 619417)
They pull this stunt as soon as non-of-colors adopt the label that blacks just forced on them. This is the umpteenth iteration of the same old stunt. Stop kowtowing to blacks. Call them whatever you like, if they don't like it, too bad.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/29/2020 8:43:47 PM (No. 619605)
Does this mean that we no longer have to Capitalize the word 'black' when talking about negro leftist activists?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 11/30/2020 11:18:16 PM (No. 620340)
And who are these students - not too bright. Believe there are other things much more important.
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More silliness. The word black in these phrases evolved centuries ago and has nothing to do with skin color.