CNN's Ridiculous List of Commonly Used Phrase...That Are Now Racist?

Our good buddies over at ol' CNN have published an article which removes any doubt that they are the most ridiculous news organization on Earth.
The post is about every day words and phrases that have racist connotations.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
CNN has put out an article in an apparent effort
to just erase any doubt that they are the most
ridiculous news organization on earth. Everyday words and phrases that
have racist connotations. I think names should be named. This
article is by Scotty Andrew and her meet Cower. The

(00:22):
words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society.
The idea of this article is we should stop using them.
I'm going to skip a lot of the clap trap,
but get to the point. Well, I'll tell you this.
They quote some chick from Smith College. I'm sorry, she's
an assistant from Smith game some broad. I have a feeling.

(00:46):
I have a feeling this broad makes a handsome living, deluding, misinforming,
and poisoning the minds of our young students. Please do
not use gendered language to address everyone. Right, I'm sorry,
All will move along. Language works best when it brings
as many people into communication with each other. If we

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know by using certain language, were disinviting certain people from
that conversation, language isn't doing its job. Language has a job.
For instance, in real estate, master bedroom and master bath,
the phrase master bedroom first appeared in a Sears catalog,

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which is, you know, shockingly only sixty years after you
know slavery was so it wasn't a plantation. No, it
wasn't a plantation thing. And master bedrooms were watching more
widely implemented in American at homes after World War Two.
While it's unclear whether the term is rooted in American
slavery on plantations, I'm sure it evokes that history, does it, Okay?

(01:52):
I'd like to I'd like to know are there any
Black people that when they hear master bath and master
bedroom in a house or master lock, don't just think
that's the big bedroom in the big bathroom? Right? Well,
what's and getting back to our discussion of some length yesterday,
slavery has been universal, practically universal since ancient times. It's

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only fairly recently that it's not been common. And there
are more slaves on earth right now than there have
ever been, partly because the population is bigger than it's
ever been. But slavery has practically been ubiquitous. So the
idea that master or slave would be based on American slavery,
it's just it's inexplicable. It wouldn't be moving along the

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idea of a blacklist, something on a list of things
you don't like or shouldn't be used, a blacklist. This
is troubling nomenclature. Well, that's that's been a common argument
for a long time that the bad guys were black
and the good guys were white, and which seems to
be uh prevalent throughout history for some reason. But right,

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but scared things happen at night, in the dark and
the darkness and light. Yeah, I did. It's a stretch
to stretch that to skin tone. I have a black dog.
He doesn't terrify me. He's a nice fellow anyway. Apparently,
having run out of ideas after just two, they're back
to the term master is in the Master's Tournament, one

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of four major golf tournaments, the Masters now. The tournament
was founded for the very best players in the game
who have mastered the game, according to the freaking guy
who founded it, who explained exactly why I named it that,
But again Jack. According to CNN, these terms are problematic

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in the arts references to no comments from the peanut Gallery. Okay,
you're gonna have to explain this one to The term
dates back to the vaudeville era and refer to the
cheap seats where black people often set. Again, it's if
you want to argue it's about economics and more, well,

(04:07):
that's not true. They're way more white poor people now
and have always been, than black poor people. But nonetheless,
because if a black person went to Vaudeville, they would
probably sit in the peanut section, allegedly, that's racist. Now,
this I found somewhat interesting. Shockingly enough, the term grandfathered
in the legal team broadly refers to the grandfather Clause

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adopted by seven Southern states during the reconstruction era. Um.
Under it, anyone who was able to vote in eighteen
before eighteen sixty seven was exempt from literacy tests, property requirements,
and poll taxes needed for voting, but enslave black people
weren't eligible obviously, So if your grandfather could vote, then
you can vote without any limitations. So I found that

(04:53):
context pretty interesting. But if something has lost all of
its meaning in the intervening hundred and fifty years since,
universally understood to mean you had status before, so you
still have status. Yeah, I mean, and it's never bothered
anybody except CNN, who worked as hard as they could
to come up with it cake walk. There wouldn't be

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one out of a hundred thousand people know the background
on that word. No, And and that might not even
be the only background that could be a president. Going
back to the Roman Empire, cake walk, it's what we
call an easy victory, or something easily accomplished. The cake
walk original originated as a dance performed by enslaved black
people on plantations before the Civil I've always had problems

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with this stuff, where if you didn't know the origin
of it, if nobody knows the origin of it when
they're using it, how is it racist? Even if it
even if you could somehow take it back a hundred
years and come up with a racial meaning. Well, and
what's really funny about this? And they explain it in CNN,
but are so thick headed they don't understand the irony.
It was actually racist against whites. It was allegedly performed

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by black people as a way of mockery the way
white people dance, which are weirdly funny, though apparently it's
kind of an ancient observation. Why is it white people
can't dance worth a lick? Uh? Let's see lynch mobs.
They mentioned everybody knows that though um to be sold

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down the river, etcetera. So CNN working as hard as
they can to be offended by common phrases everybody uses,
and nobody's offended by, including the leader of the New
Black Panthers. I mean, it's just ridiculously and gett