Lights Out
Dear Editor,
Ladies and Gentleman, will the last sane, reasonable, level headed, thinking person in this country please fold the flag and turn out the lights on your way out.
I just saw the following headline: Cosmetic giants remove the word ‘whitening’ from products, realtor association stops using the word ‘master bedroom’
The Court of Master Sommeliers said it will stop using the title of “master sommelier” because of the racial implications.
Additionally they will be dropping the words light/lightening, fair/fairness, white/whitening. “Master” will be replaced by “primary” because they feel they can’t be sufficiently woke enough if they don’t.
Fellow conservatives, society appears to on its final revolution of circling the drain. We need to grab the plug chain and hang on tight to avoid to going down the drain with the morons, idiots, whackos and panderers.
Can anybody possibly tell me if I’m overreacting or is all this insanity really happening? Has our society really degraded to this point? Have we reached the point where radical leftists, socialist Democrats, communists, Marxists, Antifa and Antifa-like organizations, and brain-dead social justice warriors – all of whom are being backed by very powerful people both outside and inside our country who have been thinking and planning for the long term to destroy this country and rebuild it according to their desires with themselves in charge. The COVID-19 pandemic set the stage; the death of George Floyd was the match that lit the fuse leading to the explosion.
Most Americans have been complacent for so long that even with everything happening they don’t see the outrage, the call to arms like they do with the radicals. Some have stood up and said, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore”, but not enough. The mainstream media is lying by omission when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and the actual effects. And another factor that has been ignored in this self-immolation called defund/disband law enforcement is gangs like MS-13 – gangs that are very well organized and drooling over the idea of no law enforcement.
Some may call me Chicken Little, running around yelling the sky is falling. I am not Chicken Little and I’m not saying the sky is falling, but I’m beginning to think I may be seeing some fine cracks forming.
“Honest Officer, I just looked down for one second. He came out of nowhere.”
Alan Marshall
I just don’t get it. Why is it important to you to name your bedroom the “master” bedroom? Like what are the other bedrooms then? Your children live in slave quarters or something? What is the person that stays in this bedroom exactly the master of?
Are you calling to any action or just comfortably commenting your microaggressions from the security blanket of your computer screen?
Please, Alan’s “fellow conservatives”, he is right! Alan is right! Fold up your flags of old Dixie and turn out the lights. Don’t worry about the one in the attic, it hasn’t worked for you in generations.
Tommy, you obviously don’t get it and never will. Words that have been in use for centuries were never indented to be “racially derogatory”. Only the left, socialist, democrats and others who hate this country are “appalled and threatened” by this language. Maybe any of you had any education, you would see how standing for such balderdash is doing nothing to advance our country. Get a job, or find some way to help others and get off your high horse over such petty, meaningless issues.
Interesting… Tommy didn’t start the “Petty, Meaningless issue” you moron. That award goes to none other than Alan Marshall.
Thank you (throwing kisses)……thank you (throwing kisses)…..thank you throwing kisses).
I am so thrilled to accept this award. I do this for all the little people…you know, the trolls.
Love ya, mean it.
You are probably right on one thing, the term master bedroom was likely not intended to be racially (or sexually) biased. Just like cigarettes aren’t intended to cause cancer, that doesn’t make them safe and healthy. Today, the term “master” has very strong connotations that garner visceral responses from many of our neighbors. Truthfully, if Alan Marshall wants to call it a “master bedroom” that’s his prerogative – but why does he have a problem that other people are taking their time to examine and think about this issue and make changes they feel appropriate? I mean, is it really important that every Orc he encounters in his weekly Dungeons and Dragons game be hated by most all of society because he is an Orc and that’s an “evil” race? (That’s another industry where they are reconsidering how they describe and deal with race.)
Before you make personal attacks, know your audience. I’d contend I’m as highly and rigorously educated as you – though there’s no way to know for sure and I’m positive you know nothing of my educational background.
I simply don’t agree with maintaining archaic phrases that now, in our present day, marginalize and diminish people that I value in our community, as an important piece to advancing our country (in fact, it seems like you want the status quo). My opinion, sir (or madam), does not make me uneducated. Second, I have a job that I take very seriously and my focus is largely centered around elevating others and giving each an opportunity to succeed. That work is centered around partnerships across ages, races, SES backgrounds, etc.
Fine…no problem.
What I hace a problem with is how you and your comrades try to force your views on everybody by extortion.
How am I, personally, extorting you? By commenting on your post? Odd claim.
If you’re going to be wrong, be wrong in a loud voice Mr. Pickle
Oh you get it. You just like to stir things up.
What’s the deal pickles? (Pun intended)
Why do you care what Mr. Marshall calls his bedroom, I don’t care what you call your bedroom. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean that nobody else can like it! When liberals come to that realization this country will become less divided.
And on your left you have an example of the troglodytam habito parentibus fundamentum or troll living in his parent’s basement.
Love ya, mean it
You know, Alan, you can cut the sarcastic signature. You don’t know me well enough to love or hate me. You certainly don’t need to make up phrases to resort to name-calling. It’s a lot of work just to emulate the behavior of a 6 year old.
Glass houses my friend, glass houses.
Still love ya, still mean it
How dare you, Tommy Pickels. I do get it. A master bedroom refers to the head of household’s room. I guess we could call it the head room but that connantation would send the “Me Too-ers” into spasms. So a guest room is now called the room where people who don’t live here sleep? How about you fold up your commie rainbow flag and buy a one-way ticket to Africa or Iran or Iraq. You know, a country where what you say IS a crime since you’re so conscious of everyone’s feelings. People who rant and rave about being black and the injustice they have endured are nothing more than instigators – racism exists only because the media says so and idiots like you show how progressive you are by pandering to those poor, poor black people. I have always looked at people as people and based my opinions of anyone on the individual – until recently. Now I look at every black person as a possible threat because of the rioting, burning, looting, and the animosity in their eyes because I’m white. So yes, I will take my AMERICAN flag and fold it because it offends someone I’m sure. I will turn out my lights. I will also keep my door locked, and keep weapons handy. You, Tommy Pickels (rug rat that you are) are not an AMERICAN, not a person of compassion and open mindedness but a true died in the wool (no offense to sheep) moron. You who hid behind a pseudonym – show your real face! Say your real name!
What did I dare to do?
You say racism doesn’t exist in the same paragraph that you say “I look at every black person as a threat” (and it does not matter your explanation of “rioting”, tell a complete stranger to “fold up your commie rainbow flag and buy a one-way ticket to Africa or Iran or Iraq”, and describe people that are protesting loudly about the injustice they have endured as black (or brown people) as “nothing more than instigators”.
You close by reminding me that you have weapons handy and accuse me of not being a citizen of the United States by whatever your own definition of that is. Sounds like you are a completely stable one.
Congratulations though, you are the first person here to discover that I share a name with a 90s cartoon character. You win the prize, a 30 year old stale box of Reptar Cereal.
Some people just go out of their way to be offended.
Yes, you are overreacting. What difference does it make to anyone if the product or room has a name change??
If it makes the people using the product or room and the seller of the product and room feel better to do so, what’s it to you?? As usual, you are just trying to stir the pot of your conservative brethren. What possible difference does it make to YOU what a product or a room is called. You sir, are being ridiculous.
Your reply reflects one of two things…
First, someone whose thinking is very shallow or
Second, someone who is so blinded to what is obvious, or has consumed the far left socialist kool aide, or is uneducated and unable, for whatever reason, to understand or comprehend how you use a minority number of people to herd the majority by creating faux outrage and the art of propaganda much like was illustrated in the use of NewSpeak in ‘1984’, where the meaning of words were repeatedly altered until people accepted it.
This ties in with the destruction of history in that you must not allow the masses to be able to look back and see how this has happened before before with tragic results.
Oh, BTW…Love ya, mean it
So what you are saying is that since there are less black and brown people in America that they don’t matter? Like since it only offends a “minority number of people” then the majority should just ignore it?
And, like, you know… white people are going to be outnumbered soon…. I bet you’ll be looking forward to living on a property that has a “master’s bedroom” then.
Let’s see, looking back over the post I’m afraid I don’t see any of your points, unless I put on glasses that warp things to fit your agenda.
As for the “master’s bedroom” comment…really? Seriously, you going to drop to that level out of desperation?
This is an e-mail sent to Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune after an article he published concerning a name change for the Washington Redskins. It will make you laugh at the ridiculous renaming hysteria.
Dear Mr. Page: I agree with our Native American population. I am highly jilted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but nay, nay. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must move forward.
Let’s ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns.
The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant Blacks from the 60’s alive. Gone. It’s offensive to us white folk.
The New York Yankees offend the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? No! There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men’s lives. I am also offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. Totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres.
Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh
Pirates!
Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. Wrong message to our children.
The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic. Wrong message to our children. The Cincinnati Reds promote downers/barbiturates. Wrong message to our children.
The Milwaukee Brewers. Well that goes without saying. Wrong message to our children.
So, there you go. We need to support any legislation that comes out to rectify this travesty, because the government will likely become involved with this issue, as they should. Just the kind of thing the do-nothing Congress loves.
As a die-hard Oregon State fan, my wife and I, with all of this in mind, suggest it might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women’s athletic teams to something other than “the Beavers (especially when they play Southern California. Do we really want the Trojans sticking it to the Beavers???
I always love your articles and I generally agree with them. As for the Redskins name I would suggest they change the name to the “Foreskins” to better represent their community, paying tribute to the d**k heads in Washington DC.
One would think that before commenting on something as simple as the word “master” one would look up what it means. There are so many more uses of the word in the English language that the term as applied to one who owns slaves is a minor note on the list. Until the conversation takes a reasonable turn this kind of attack on a word will be ignored by most everyone. Try looking in a master dictionary and then get back to us.
Alan: The lights are already out in the minds of these idiots.
Don’t give in to the wacko’s, lunatics’ and socialists. Make sure you vote and encourage your friends to do so.
IF I’m the last one to leave this country I’ll burn the flag as required by flag etiquette. Folding to take it with me would make no sense.
What would make sense is for those who prefer progressive socialism/communism to go to one of the many, many already established country’s with said government systems and let the few of us who prefer constitutional republican democracy to remain here and stay open to the other immigrants who seek freedom with us. But that would defeat their goal of world domination. So …
“ASSIMILATE”
~DeBORGah Gergson
I suppose we will need to do away with Master Sergeants in the military. And in my work we will have to discard our Master Telemetry units and quit using slave controllers. Science will need to speak no more about black holes or white noise. We can’t eat white corn or yellow corn, since some would be offended (and we can’t have that). This wokeness crap is getting so bad I think I’d like to take a long nap!
Where in the Bill of Rights are we protected against being offended? It doesn’t exist.
Toughen up and quit looking for excuses. Every human on earth faces challenges.
Some endure them, some become victim to them and the balance overcome them. It’s a personal choice.
And for those who view abortion as a choice, why not abort the attitude of being a permanent victim and instead choose to become exceptional and make a lasting contribution to society at large?
Pity those of you with a “Masters” Degree.
And we can no longer ask students to master the subject material. We can’t have master carpenters or master craftsmen. Pretty soon, someone will decide that Mister is too much like master, and its use will be banished as well.
Oh, the horror, the sheer terror! I walked into the Sonic restaurant on Summit Avenue and there on their menu board was a “Hand-Mixed Master Shake!” I was so frightened and intimidated that I almost shrieked at the sight of it. And all those poor black kids working there were cowering in the corner in mortal fear for their lives!
Excellent!