City of Seattle: "brown bag" racist. (biased, carry, county)
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To say that one "brown-bagged it today," meaning 'brought lunch from home' is still a fairly common expression. Elliot Bronstein of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights finds this expression to be racist. All PR personnel at city agencies have been advised not to use the term. Instead, they should use the expression "lunch and learn" (??) or "sack lunch" (say isn't that potentially a gender-biased and therefore offensive?)
And furthermore, they are advised to avoid "citizen" because it is not inclusive of Seattle residents who are not citizens. Bronstein notes that the city's "Citizen's Service Bureau" was renamed the "Customer Service Bureau," presumably for this reason.
Looks to me like city employee Bronstein has way too much time on his hands.
Just when you think PC has gone overboard someone comes along with yet more offensive phrases.
What happens when the dreaded question has to be asked to acquire government services.."Are you a US Citizen ?"
Are they not allowed to ask that anymore ?
Isn't it called that because the bag you carry it in is brown? Are the creators of brown paper bags racist now too? Should we make anything brown a different color because it could come across "insensitive"? UPS better watch their back...
But he has a string of successes according to that article.
He got "manhole" changed to "person hole" in all city documentation.
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