Canada's Girl Scouts will drop the name
'Brownie' - for its youngest members - because
the term is 'racist'... members who will
now be called 'Embers'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ruth Bashinsky
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/13/2023 2:28:38 AM
The Canadian Girl Scouts have dropped the name Brownie in favor of Embers after the term was deemed 'racist' and 'offended' some of its members.
The name change was announced by Girl Guides of Canada on Wednesday to create a more inclusive space for the seven and eight-year-old girls branch, according to a news release by Girl Guides.
'With this new name we're showing girls that what they say matters, and that Girl Guides is a place for everyone to belong,' according to a tweet Girl Guides posted.
Girl Guides of Canada said they decided to change the name of their branch in November after current and former members claimed
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pepperpot59 1/13/2023 2:35:20 AM (No. 1377506)
I'm living in a world where people have become complete idiots.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
coyote 1/13/2023 2:37:02 AM (No. 1377507)
These people have gone 'round the bend.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sg 1/13/2023 2:42:21 AM (No. 1377509)
They are called "Brownies" because their uniforms are brown. This has been the case for many decades.
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Our Rabbi dissociated our shul from both the Girl and Boy Scouts because they were actively teaching things contrary to Judaism.
The local GS leadership being obviously lesbian didn’t help.
There’s no way I’d let my children anywhere near either organization.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 1/13/2023 4:54:57 AM (No. 1377529)
Oooooo, everything is waaaayyyyyyisct.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 1/13/2023 5:07:22 AM (No. 1377532)
Millions of people will be able to sleep better now. Does this apply to the delicious baked ‘brownie’ also? I sure hope so!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/13/2023 5:13:32 AM (No. 1377535)
Should be sparks. Embers are from a dying fire. Whatever floats their boat, though. Considering revelations of their politics and activities revealed in the last decade, I would not encourage any boy our girl into Scouting.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mifla 1/13/2023 5:15:34 AM (No. 1377538)
Someone should announce that they are offended by the word "embers".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paral04 1/13/2023 5:17:04 AM (No. 1377540)
So Brownies denote color but Ember, which are black don't? Sounds logical to me.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 1/13/2023 5:24:00 AM (No. 1377548)
I had a great time as a Brownie. We had wonderful leaders who taught us so much that I remember so many years later. I've even done a few of the same projects with my grandchildren.
Because they were, at the time, the youngest Girl Scout's (6 to 9 years old) the name "Brownie" refers to a "Woodland Sprite" or "Elf" and Sprites were whatever color the little girl wanted them to be.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rfr46 1/13/2023 5:29:54 AM (No. 1377553)
So now leaders of the former Brownies are teaching the young girls to be offended by everything. Nice move, ladies. Great way to form (or deform) the next generation of women! Where are the women who fight back against these harpies?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
5 handicap 1/13/2023 5:48:08 AM (No. 1377567)
Liberal white women are the absolute worst human beings and are the driving force in the destruction of civilizations we know it...They are so proud to have effected that destruction as well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jayjeti 1/13/2023 5:56:30 AM (No. 1377572)
Aren't embers dark. I'm screaming racist on that one. Stop misappropriating will you!!!!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pixelero 1/13/2023 6:19:58 AM (No. 1377591)
So you can’t discern the difference between the traditional name of a rank in a uniformed organization based on uniform color with no racial implication behind it historically or meant in the present, and a name based upon racial animus and an individual’s skin color?
Great job at treating the concept of nuance— so favored by the liberal intellectual mandate— in the crudest possible terms. …Instruction resulting in judgement by axe instead of scalpel.
Seriously what a bunch of shallow, bumbling idiots. Teaching youngsters, besides, to cultivate the thinnest possible skin.
They’re imbeciles doing vastly more harm than good,
However, if they’re Lefties, don’t discount that they might actually be playing a deeper game and damaging these girls” self esteem to make them more susceptible to dependence ideology might actually be the plan.
The political Left, always narrow minded and totalitarian, has gone completely off the rails of reason. It exists merely to perpetuate itself, cultivating ignorance and anti-culture.
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So the Girl Scouts are switching to Campfire 🔥 Girl terminology? sarc/off
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rinktum 1/13/2023 6:33:11 AM (No. 1377596)
#12, I agree. Liberal white women are becoming the death of reasoned thought. I cannot believe how utterly stupid they are and how they feel the need to bend everyone to their will. Their know-it-all hubris is driving the most destructive forces in children’s lives today and not just in the Girl Scouts. What a bunch of harpies! I pity any man who is married to these shrews and feel sorry for their children. Their ignorance is only outpaced by their ability to be annoying.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rytwng 1/13/2023 6:35:43 AM (No. 1377600)
Everything is racist. Who determines racist?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/13/2023 6:44:19 AM (No. 1377609)
Embers...because they've made an ash of themselves...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/13/2023 6:55:48 AM (No. 1377619)
So do I have this right? We can't have "brownies" anymore. As a matter of fact, the term "Girl Scouts" should be purged from our dictionaries and conversations. Names of organizations should not include the word "girl" as it could offend non-binary people. Or (gasp) some may consider the word "girl" racist. And "scout"could be insulting to Native Americans.
So just sit down and shut up because above all you must be woke. Or you risk being cancelled, gaslighted or ghosted. By an Influencer who cannot be a Brownie.
Or something.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 1/13/2023 6:58:01 AM (No. 1377622)
So what are they going to call cookies now? Brown bread, no, that won't work...surprised the wokesters haven't gotten to that particular canned delicacy yet...the Indian girl is off the butter, the genial lady is off the pancake mix, Fruit Loops have gone queer....this society is collapsing around us...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Grateful 1/13/2023 7:00:52 AM (No. 1377626)
The perpetually agrieved are never satisfied. Next up: change 'girl guides' to 'all gender suggesters'
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 1/13/2023 7:02:10 AM (No. 1377629)
How ‘bout Oreo, or has that already been cancelled?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
pinger 1/13/2023 7:12:36 AM (No. 1377645)
So embers are "hot" so that's not appropriate. I think "Whities" would be fine since no on would be offended if so named.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NancyD 1/13/2023 7:56:06 AM (No. 1377687)
If I make home made brownies for my family, is that Racist? Am I even Worse if I put home made, buttery chocolate frosting on those brownies?
These liberals fall over each other trying to be the lead fool.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/13/2023 8:16:37 AM (No. 1377704)
In all my nearly 70 years never even ONCE did I think of Brownies with any sort of racial connotation. Until just now. How absurd, but it gives them another false flag to wave at how 'racist' we have been.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/13/2023 8:18:33 AM (No. 1377705)
So the Girl Scouts decided to name the young uns brownies because it was derogatory?
Makes as much sense as naming your sports team for something you abhor.
There is so little actual hatred these days that it must be invented
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
downnout 1/13/2023 8:24:01 AM (No. 1377709)
As a former Brownie, not once did I ever consider the term racist. I associated the term with elves for some inexplicable reason.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/13/2023 8:35:36 AM (No. 1377717)
Weren't embers once referred to as fagots? That might be problematic. Is it too late to submit "Wokelings?"
Great read on the life of a Civil War soldier by the way:
Fagots from the Campfire:
Dupré, Louis J.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/13/2023 8:36:09 AM (No. 1377720)
Kodak once made a camera called a Brownie. They were wildly popular and today camera enthusiasts collect them. I wonder if Canada will deem possession of the Brownie camera to be racist?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/13/2023 8:41:04 AM (No. 1377727)
Canada GS, get a life, please.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
privateer 1/13/2023 8:43:06 AM (No. 1377729)
I always thought that Brownies were a kind of elf. As in: 'A brownie or broonie (Scots),[1] also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit or Hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks.' These girls are younger and smaller. The uniforms were made brown for that reason, and Girl Scout uniforms are green. Either way, this recent nonsense is typical Woke hysteria.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/13/2023 9:07:18 AM (No. 1377759)
Asinine! Just purely Asinine!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 1/13/2023 9:10:24 AM (No. 1377762)
Isn't the term "girls" offensive to some (miniscule minority of trans) people??? Why stop with changing the name "Brownies"??
This is totally insane . . . correlating with the "progressive" mentality.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/13/2023 10:43:00 AM (No. 1377834)
Just call them ashes since embers are basically burning ashes about to go out. Not a good name for little girls.
They better rename fudge brownies too!
This is what dumbing down looks like folks.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
stanwoodpb 1/13/2023 11:18:30 AM (No. 1377870)
Why not just outlaw the words "Brown" and "Black"? Racism will be gone then.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Kate318 1/13/2023 11:38:44 AM (No. 1377885)
Because embers aren’t black…
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DVC 1/13/2023 12:04:47 PM (No. 1377908)
Canada is even worse than the USA nowdays on this leftist crap.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
cold porridge 1/13/2023 12:41:11 PM (No. 1377934)
The term brownie has no reference to blacks. I remember as a child reading a story about brownies which were little creatures and the book was written I believe in the 1800's.
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What is WRONG with Canada?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 1/13/2023 1:24:45 PM (No. 1377953)
Obviously the Cleveland football needs to be renamed. Considering the composition of the current team, a push for a name change might gain traction.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Penney 1/13/2023 3:45:04 PM (No. 1377996)
"Brownies," have established a history of providing information, generosity, compassion and for young girls throughout the past decades. They have already proved themselves and their organization. "Embers," is an appropriate name for those who would seek to change history for they soon burn out and are gone.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
cheeflo 1/13/2023 11:59:32 PM (No. 1378202)
They don't even know their organization's history. The name originated with the UK Girl Guides and comes from the story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing, written in 1870, which is about children learning to be helpful and industrious. A brownie is a household spirit from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks.
The scope of their understanding of how the world works is astonishingly narrow.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/14/2023 1:19:00 AM (No. 1378219)
Canada taking pointers from the idiots liberals in the USA. We can’t win - nuts to the north and wants-a-bees to the south.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Faithfully 1/16/2023 10:20:25 PM (No. 1380299)
Name the person who wants the name change.
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