Vanguard News Network
VNN Media
VNN Digital Library
VNN Reader Mail
VNN Broadcasts

Old October 28th, 2009 #1
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default Penalties for Failure to Toe the Semitically Correct Line

[This will be a stickied list of new stories about people penalized for using the wrong terms, making jokes commies and jews don't like, all that sort of thing.]
 
Old October 28th, 2009 #2
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

Football announcer suspended for taco joke:

Another day, another disciplinary action at ESPN.

The sports network slapped broadcaster Bob Griese with a one-week suspension Tuesday over a crude remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya.

The former Miami Dolphins quarterback said during a college football game last Saturday that Montoya, who is Colombian, was "out having a taco."

ESPN suspended Griese from working this week's game.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/co...#ixzz0VGb8IpOZ
 
Old October 28th, 2009 #3
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

'Racist' cookie renamed:

SYDNEY - A humble chocolate and vanilla biscuit has sparked claims of racism, forcing Coles, one of Australia's leading supermarket chains, to change its name.

Coles has rejected the claims, saying Creole Creams refer to "the well-known Creole cuisine that originated in the US". However, a spokesman, Jim Cooper, said the biscuits, which are part of an in-house range, will be renamed during a company-wide re-branding exercise.

Among those offended are Sam Watson, deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.

He told a Brisbane news website: "The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream.

"This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10605780
 
Old October 28th, 2009 #4
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

Cops told not to say 'good evening'

What's all this then? Police can't say 'Evenin' all' any more

By David Wilkes
Last updated at 8:16 AM on 26th October 2009

* Comments (437)
* Add to My Stories

Hard work being an officer: The new dictat tells officers not to make assumptions about the meaning of everyday phrases

Hard work being an officer: The new dictat tells officers not to make assumptions about the meaning of everyday phrases

With his greeting of 'Evenin' all', Dixon of Dock Green embodied the values of the solid, commonsense copper.

But his reassuring salutation, which began each episode of the classic police TV drama from 1955 to 1976, is one which today's real-life officers should be wary of using.

According to one force's official guidelines, it could confuse people from different cultural backgrounds.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0VGci1RCM
 
Old October 28th, 2009 #5
MikeTodd
Pussy Bünd "Commander"
 
MikeTodd's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: land of the Friedman, home of the Braverman
Posts: 13,329
Default

Quote:
The former Miami Dolphins quarterback said during a college football game last Saturday that Montoya, who is Colombian, was "out having a taco."
Could of been worse he could have said he was out giving someone a necktie.
__________________
Worse than a million megaHitlers all smushed together.
 
Old November 4th, 2009 #6
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

[not precisely what this thread is collecting, but close enough]

If they feel 'offended,' you're fired
Professor claims he was canned on mystery harassment charge
Posted: November 03, 2009

By Drew Zahn

A college professor in Georgia is whirling in confusion right now, reprimanded and apparently threatened with termination without any specific charges, hearings
or evidence of wrongdoing – only the school administration's allegation that he "offended" someone.

The troubles for Professor Thomas Thibeault of East Georgia College seem to have begun during an Aug. 5 faculty sexual harassment training seminar, when he questioned the assertion – as he understood it – being presented by Mary Smith, the school's vice president for legal affairs, that the feelings of the offended constituted proof of offensive behavior.

"What provision is there in the sexual harassment policy to protect the accused against complaints which are malicious or … ridiculous?" Thibeault asked.

According to Thibeault's description of the events, Smith replied, "There is no provision in the policy. I must emphasize that if the person feels offended then the incident must be reported to the college authorities."

"So there is no protection against a false accusation?" Thibeault pressed.

"No," Smith is said to have responded.

"Then the policy itself is flawed," commented Thibeault.

Two days later, a police chief was waiting to escort Thibeault off campus. The professor, under the circumstances, believed he was fired.

Then in subsequent weeks, Thibeault was informed his contract would not be renewed for the following year and that a faculty committee had concluded he violated the college's sexual harassment policy. For doing what, for saying what, Thibeault still doesn't know.

Thibeault shortly thereafter contacted the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which immediately fired off a letter of protest.

Said FIRE spokesman Adam Kissel, "The professor still has not received anything in writing detailing what he is accused of doing. … If professors can't engage in vigorous debate on college campuses, who can?"

But the letter from FIRE to the school got down to business:

"The Supreme Court has explicitly held on numerous occasions that speech cannot be restricted simply because it offends people. In 'Street v. New York,' 394 U.S. 576, 592 (1969), the court held that '[i]t is firmly settled that under our Constitution the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.' In 'Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri,' 410 U.S. 667, 670 (1973), the court held that 'the mere dissemination of ideas – no matter how offensive to good taste – on a state university campus may not be shut off in the name alone of "conventions of decency,"'" it warned the school.

School officials declined to enter the conversation.

"Since this matter is an ongoing personnel mater, I cannot discuss it," said school president John Black via e-mail.

FIRE officials said Thibeault was notified Oct. 20 "that he had been reinstated due to lack of evidence."

But then Black issued the professor a "'reprimand' for unspecified 'offensive' speech – again without presenting any notice, hearing, evidence or witnesses."

"This case is far from over," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "President Black has added to his blatant abuses of power by reprimanding Professor Thibeault for his speech, but never bothering to mention precisely what his offense was. Black has already retaliated against Thibeault by informing him that his contract would not be renewed after the spring semester. The bullying tactics at this college are breathtaking."

In the interim, FIRE reported, Black first wrote Thibeault that since he failed to resign dismissal proceedings were begun, then wrote that a committee was appointed to conduct an inquiry, then said Thibeault had been suspended, not terminated.

"EGC and President Black have utterly failed to meet their constitutional and moral obligation to respect freedom of speech, academic freedom, and due process," Kissel said. "Black has punished protected speech without any due process whatsoever, and he has threatened further disciplinary action if someone else merely sends in a complaint. Meanwhile, he has not lifted his retaliatory decision not to rehire Thibeault for the next academic year."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114935
 
Old November 4th, 2009 #7
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

Larry Johnson issues an apology
Posted by Mike Florio on October 27, 2009 1:32 PM ET

Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, who used a homophobic epithet on two occasions in the wake of Sunday's 37-7 loss to the Chargers, has issued an apology.

"First of all, I want to apologize to the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs and the rest of the NFL, Commissioner Goodell, the Chiefs organization, Coach Todd Haley, his staff, and my teammates for the words I used yesterday," Johnson said in a statement issued by agent Peter Schaffer. "I regret my actions. The words were used by me in frustration, and they were not appropriate. I did not intend to offend anyone, but that is no excuse for what I said.

"I also want to apologize to all the kids who view athletes as role models. I was not a good role model yesterday and hopefully I can become a better role model. We all make mistakes, and the challenge is to learn from them. I will do my best to learn from this one as I move toward becoming a better person, teammate, and member of the Kansas City chiefs team and community."

Johnson used the term "fag" in direction of one on his Twitter followers, and then told reporters on Monday to "get your faggot asses out of here." The league office has said that it is exploring the situation, and discipline could be imposed by the Chiefs, the NFL, or both.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...es-an-apology/
 
Old December 27th, 2011 #8
Lisa
Are we having fun yet? :)
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 677
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeTodd View Post
Could of been worse he could have said he was out giving someone a necktie.

hahahahaha
__________________
Support Bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have.
 
Old August 15th, 2012 #9
Alex Linder
Administrator
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 45,756
Blog Entries: 34
Default

very long list of PC changes in England, mostly to satisfy muslims. of course, in an article that mentions everything else, no mention of the men who have served time in jail for criticizing jews

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/31...al-correctness
 
Old August 15th, 2012 #10
Steven L. Akins
Banned
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: The Heart of Dixie
Posts: 13,170
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
'Racist' cookie renamed:

SYDNEY - A humble chocolate and vanilla biscuit has sparked claims of racism, forcing Coles, one of Australia's leading supermarket chains, to change its name.

Coles has rejected the claims, saying Creole Creams refer to "the well-known Creole cuisine that originated in the US". However, a spokesman, Jim Cooper, said the biscuits, which are part of an in-house range, will be renamed during a company-wide re-branding exercise.

Among those offended are Sam Watson, deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland.

He told a Brisbane news website: "The word Creole comes from a period when people's humanity was measured by the amount of white blood they had in their bloodstream.

"This is the same kind of thought that underpinned horrific regimes like the Nazis."


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10605780
Creole originally meant a person of wholly European (Spanish or French) blood that was born in the New World. It never meant a person of mixed race; but was later misappropriated by people of mixed race.
 
Reply

Share


Thread
Display Modes


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 05:32 AM.
Page generated in 2.40167 seconds.