The fat White waitress stepped out of her car for her nightly cakewalk.
"NIGGERS could be here" she thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be NIGGERS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against her bare chest. "I HATE NIGGERS" she thought. Sweet Dreams are Made of These reverberated her entire car, making it pulsate even as the $9 wine circulated through her powerful thick veins and washed away her (merited) fear of minorities after dark. "With a car, you can go anywhere you want" she said to herself, out loud.
Spectator World reporter Amber Athey revealed this banned word list from Politico in a report Monday, indicating that it was part of an internal company initiative started in the last couple years so the outlet could avoid "elevating transphobic voices."
Athey described how, "after several complaints within the company of its own reporting on trans issues and a 2021 seminar featuring "three transgender individuals charged with helping the newsroom learn to report on transgender issues," "radical views on gender permeated the newsroom more generally."
Then, "A few weeks after the transgender seminar, Politico appointed a new standards editor to oversee the tone of editorial content. Anita Kumar, a former White House correspondent, was made senior editor for standards and ethics," Athey reported.
After the new addition to its team, Politico sent out its style guide. The Spectator author described it, saying, "A style guide sent to staff in January 2022 reads more like a game of Media Matters mad libs than a document for journalists. It suggested some noninclusive words that Politico reporters should avoid using in their work."
Athey provided style guide’s list of banned words. It included "Mankind, Man-made, Manhunt," and "Crack the whip," spelling out that the latter is "unacceptable because of origins in slavery."
Cakewalk is racist and sexist, because black women are more likely to be fat (due to Donald Trump). Using words with 'cake' in them is highly triggering of food cravings. It is a clear and intentional attempt to genocide blacks and women.
You ever see that video of the overweight black woman blaming her weight on Trump and white supremacy? It was a mostly white audience and they were nodding in agreement. I would’ve loved to ask them in private what they really thought.
Back in the late days of slavery, a "cake walk" was an event during the Yule break where the master would get all of the slaves together, and whichever family group did the best/funniest dance skit would get a cake.
It's worse, no? Almost nobody today knew about that connection or made that connection. The meaning of the word has changed into something completely different and inoffensive.
Yep. Reminds me how I recently heard someone saying that we shouldn’t say “he went off the reservation” or “he went native” anymore. I’ve only heard he went native as a joke now
Fuck you it's 1 in the morning and I shouldn't be laughing this loud while my neighbours are trying to sleep 😂
White should not be capitalized. Same for black. This was common sense for everyone until 2020.
At this point I'm ready to just go full meme on them. It's black and White now. Also, biological Males and biological females. Come at me, libs.
Hahaha, I was joking, but Fox actually accidentally did the latter when they presumably copy/pasted from the document:
Based?!
Just one step further. Next they'll suggest servant because that's how they feel about people in the service-industry anyway.
I'm probably going the route of "white," "black," "Green," "Blue," "brown," and "rAiNbOw."
Nah fuck you we're capitalizing White now all the time everywhere from now on
Cakewalk? How is that racist? Never hire these people.
Cakewalk is racist and sexist, because black women are more likely to be fat (due to Donald Trump). Using words with 'cake' in them is highly triggering of food cravings. It is a clear and intentional attempt to genocide blacks and women.
You ever see that video of the overweight black woman blaming her weight on Trump and white supremacy? It was a mostly white audience and they were nodding in agreement. I would’ve loved to ask them in private what they really thought.
I doubt there was much thinking. The social conditioning kicked in before a thought could even form.
Was a form of game where the prize was a cake in the day of cakesbeing expensive and rare.
That just shows people really have to do research to be offended.
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Back in the late days of slavery, a "cake walk" was an event during the Yule break where the master would get all of the slaves together, and whichever family group did the best/funniest dance skit would get a cake.
But banning the word cakewalk is a fucking joke.
Thanks. Yea that is very stupid for them to ban the word.
It's worse, no? Almost nobody today knew about that connection or made that connection. The meaning of the word has changed into something completely different and inoffensive.
Now we're back at step one.
Yep. Reminds me how I recently heard someone saying that we shouldn’t say “he went off the reservation” or “he went native” anymore. I’ve only heard he went native as a joke now