For instance, Robinson warned, “hold down the fort” is a potentially insulting reference to American Indian stereotypes.
He explained: “To ‘hold down the fort’ originally meant to watch and protect against the vicious Native American intruders. In the territories of the West, Army soldiers or settlers saw the ‘fort’ as their refuge from their perceived ‘enemy,’ the stereotypical ‘savage’ Native American tribes.”
And “rule of thumb,” he wrote, can according to women’s activists refer "to an antiquated law, whereby the width of a husband’s thumb was the legal size of a switch or rod allowed to beat his wife.
The liberals lately are going all out on the racist stuff. Chris Mathews said an ambiguous reference to Chicago was racist because there’s a lot of black people in Chicago. So I guess if you mention a city with a lot of black people, you’re racist.
Aussie Shepherd and a three-legged rescue mutt of indeterminate lineage. The tripod did come off the local rez so she tends to be a tad sensitive to cracks about indians and the handicapped. But she’s tougher than a boot.
Stuff like that make want to go out and tell a person with a cleft lip and pallet to keep a stiff upper lip, a blind guy to keep a sharp eye out, a quadreplegic to put his best foot forward, wish a diebetic sweet dreams, and give a fat guy some food for thought.
AFA the dogs at home, they are trained to hate everyone regardless of race, creed, religion, gender or any other supposedly defining aspect or feature.
