{"id":31830,"date":"2012-08-31T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31830"},"modified":"2012-08-31T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:51:51","slug":"yes-pc-has-reached-the-point-of-blithering-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31830","title":{"rendered":"Yes, PC Has Reached the Point of Blithering Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, folks: according to our very own State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/08\/30\/state-department-hold-down-fort-other-common-phrases-could-be-offensive\/\">the expression &#8220;hold down the fort&#8221; &#8211; as well as many others &#8211; is now to be considered offensive.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For instance, Robinson warned, &#8220;hold down the fort&#8221; is a potentially insulting reference to American Indian stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many times have you or a colleague asked if someone could &#8216;hold down the fort?'&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;You were likely asking someone to watch the office while you go and do something else, but the phrase&#8217;s historical connotation to some is negative and racially offensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article for some more real &#8220;winners&#8221; in terms of absolutely inane thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, many common terms have different meanings today than they did years ago.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 the term &#8220;slave&#8221; was derived from the generic term for the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe &#8211; Slavs.\u00a0 So . . .\u00a0 is saying I&#8217;m &#8220;slaving away&#8221; cutting the grass or at work now offensive to eastern Europeans?<\/p>\n<p>This is sheer idiocy.\u00a0 And someone got paid to come up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, folks: according to our very own State Department the expression &#8220;hold down the fort&#8221; &#8211; &hellip; <a title=\"Yes, PC Has Reached the Point of Blithering Idiocy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31830\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, PC Has Reached the Point of Blithering Idiocy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}