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Posted: 8/15/2007 8:02:37 AM EDT

Got this email yesterday from our EO Advisor. The EO Advisor typed the disclosure and got the list from the EO School.
While the majority of these terms are obviously not offensive, many of them I have never even heard of. Not only that, but as you can see, a lot of them are simply...words, legal terms, names, that can't really be substituted without a long, drawn out description.

Here is the message:

Disclosure: Disparaging Terms that should not be used in the workplace. Some will find this list offensive just reading it. I became irritated just typing these words. However unfortunately we need a reminder that this is not appropriate in the work place. This list was derived from EO School (DEOMI). I did not come up with this list of hurtful words.

Jewed
Stepin fechit
Chink
Indian-giver
Flip
Working like a slave
Boy
Uncle Charlie
Girl
Sounds greek to me
Nigger
Lackey
Cracker
Dumb PR
Honky
Red man
Blackmail
Indian
Dago
Holy Roller
Black-Ball
Negro
Dago-Red
Mick
White Lie
Poor White Trash
Black Lie
Black Sheep
Black List
Darkee
Lowest on the Totem Pole
Kike
Indian war
Beaner
Wet Back
Blue-Eyed Devil
Lazy Mex
Coon
Red Bone
Uncle Tom
High Yellow
Buck
Yellow Gal
Jungle Bunny
Tar Baby
Sambo
Cocker Roach
Half Breed
Blondes Have more Fun
Pickanenny
Dumb Blonde
Jezzabell
Jap
Hang with a new rope
Whitee
Wop
Kimosabe
Trailer Trash
Indian Summer
Paddy wagon
Spic
Spear chucker
Black Jew-Jew
Canuck
Jew Boy
Oriental
Pollock Welfare Bum
Colonial
Savage
Colored
Monkey
You People
Limp wrist
Queer
Caught Red Handed
Guinea Pig

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:05:32 AM EDT

[#1]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??

LOLERSKATES??

ROFLCOPTER???

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:07:48 AM EDT

[#2]

Sorry, it was in two columns and it's combining the two. I have to fix it.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:10:04 AM EDT

[#3]

Sweet baby Jesus. WTF? This limp wristed queer must have had his lackey working like a slave to get this list together. ;-)

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:11:45 AM EDT

[#4]

"Limp wrist queer"

How come "Durka Durka" isn't on there yet?

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:12:00 AM EDT

[#5]

Alright, fixed it.

Quoted:
Sweet baby Jesus. WTF? This limp wristed queer must have had his lackey working like a slave to get this list together. ;-)

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:14:19 AM EDT

[#6]

No "Camel Jockey" or "Sand Flea?"

I guess it is all about priorities.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:14:27 AM EDT

[#7]

No mud shark? Somebody's not gonna get their EO challenge coin...

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:15:35 AM EDT

[#8]

I never heard of mud shark until recently.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:15:46 AM EDT

[#9]

[Tyrone Biggums] Children, let me tell you about my first time on drugs...it was amazing! Donald and Mickey came over, and we sang songs and ate cookies for hours! [/Tyrone Biggums]

ETA: It's been my experience that the normal full-time EO people are completely incapable of doing any other job in the military, and most are incapable of doing their own EO job.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:18:13 AM EDT

[#10]

Redneck?
Welsh on a bet?

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:25:36 AM EDT

[#11]

Guinea pig? WTF, over?

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:28:50 AM EDT

[#12]

"You people"

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:30:26 AM EDT

[#13]

here goes the neighborhood.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:31:06 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
"You people"

Damnit, you beat me to it!

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:34:31 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I never heard of mud shark until recently.

I'm liking Tar Baby new one to me

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:35:41 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Got this email yesterday from our EO Advisor. The EO Advisor typed the disclosure and got the list from the EO School.
While the majority of these terms are obviously not offensive, many of them I have never even heard of. Not only that, but as you can see, a lot of them are simply...words, legal terms, names, that can't really be substituted without a long, drawn out description.

Here is the message:

Disclosure: Disparaging Terms that should not be used in the workplace. Some will find this list offensive just reading it. I became irritated just typing these words. However unfortunately we need a reminder that this is not appropriate in the work place. This list was derived from EO School (DEOMI). I did not come up with this list of hurtful words.

Stepin fechit (WHAT?)
Flip (As in a coin?)
Working like a slave ('cause only black people where ever slaves..)
Uncle Charlie (What?)
Boy (so how do you refer to your son?)
Girl (so how do you refer to your daughter?)
Sounds greek to me (so "sounds like Latin to me" would be ok?
Lackey (so "he is a Kiss ass" is OK?
Cracker (it's what's for lunch)
Red man (guess you can't ask for a chaw)
Blackmail (so HOW THE FUCK is that racist?)
Indian (Ummm, so what about Sanjeeb Patel?)
Black-Ball (how is a black-ball/White-ball voting system considered racist?)
White Lie (how is this related to race?)
Black Lie (i don't even think this is a real term)
Black Sheep (how is this related to race (again))
Black List (how is this racist?)
Lowest on the Totem Pole (fuck me)
Indian war (oh for fuck's sake)
Coon (so i guess anyone that lives on the Coon River can't invite someone to their house)
Buck (What the mother fuck, come ON)
Cocker Roach (umm, yeah, how the what the fuuuuuck?)
Blondes Have more Fun (Can't be having THAT SHIT)
Hang with a new rope (great so anything that is lifted up is going to be on an old rope!)
Indian Summer (awwww, fuck this)
Canuck (what? why, what the fuck?)
Oriental (god for fucking bid)
Colonial (so that trip to williamsburg is out)
Savage (what if your last name is Savage, i work with one)
Guinea Pig (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CHRIST!)

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:39:57 AM EDT

[#17]

Gotta love the MEO folks.

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:44:01 AM EDT

[#18]

What about "gypped?"

gyp also gip (jp) Slang
tr.v. gypped also gipped, gyp·ping also gip·ping, gyps also gips
To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.
n.
1. A fraud or swindle.
2. One who defrauds; a swindler.

[Probably short for Gypsy.]

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Posted: 8/15/2007 8:47:05 AM EDT

[#19]

So, if it’s not on the list I can say it?

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:50:22 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I never heard of mud shark until recently.

As interracial dating/marriage has expanded and become acceptable, that term has been used less and less.

I heard it more in the '70s and EARLY '80s.

edited for speeling.

Or is that racist?

Posted: 8/15/2007 8:55:06 AM EDT

[#21]

Pickanenny? WTF?

I don't see Porch Monkey listed, that must still be ok.

Canuck? You can't say Canuck?

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:34:30 AM EDT

[#22]

That list illustrates profound ignorance.

Most of the uses of "black" and "white" don't have the slightest inference to race.

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:39:54 AM EDT

[#23]

According to that guidance they can't mention the United Negro College Fund or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I'm offended.

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:42:42 AM EDT

[#24]

Well, at least you can still use "pole smoker", "peter puffer", and "knob goblin". Carry on.

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:45:18 AM EDT

[#25]

Stepin Fetchit?

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:46:10 AM EDT

[#26]

I would have to say that EOR is out of line. Unsolicited emails like that, even from the EOR, are not appropriate. They of all people should know that someone could take offense to the list and complain about it. But in all honesty, who gives a shit. I am and American with freedom of speech. If you take offense then you can suck my ba*** bitc***,%&&%$,(*^&$&,*#!%&,(&^&*^&%%,*&%^$%,(^&^$%^
And thats all I got to say about that.

Posted: 8/15/2007 9:52:29 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
[Tyrone Biggums] Children, let me tell you about my first time on drugs...it was amazing! Donald and Mickey came over, and we sang songs and ate cookies for hours! [/Tyrone Biggums]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-O0qCRS5YE

Posted: 8/15/2007 11:45:32 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Stepin Fetchit?

Probably refers to a slick sleeve recruit; wouldn't want to hurt their feelings, either.

Posted: 8/15/2007 1:04:37 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
According to that guidance they can't mention the United Negro College Fund or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I'm offended.

Yep, a couple of us at work mentioned how she just made the NAACP a bad word apparently.

Next time I see her in person, I may play it off as if it was a joke. She's got two enlisted grades on me though.

Posted: 8/15/2007 1:18:39 PM EDT

[#30]

Disclosure: Disparaging Terms that should not be used in the workplace. Some will find this list offensive just reading it. I became irritated just typing these words. However unfortunately we need a reminder that this is not appropriate in the work place. This list was derived from EO School (DEOMI). I did not come up with this list of hurtful words.

Jewed
Stepin fechit

Chink
Indian-giver
Flip
Working like a slave
Boy
Uncle Charlie
Girl
Sounds greek to me
Nigger
Lackey
Cracker
Dumb PR
Honky
Red man
Blackmail
Indian
Dago
Holy Roller
Black-Ball
Negro

Dago-Red
Mick
White Lie
Poor White Trash
Black Lie
Black Sheep
Black List
Darkee
Lowest on the Totem Pole
Kike
Indian war
Beaner
Wet Back
Blue-Eyed Devil
Lazy Mex
Coon
Red Bone
Uncle Tom
High Yellow
Buck
Yellow Gal
Jungle Bunny
Tar Baby
Sambo
Cocker Roach
Half Breed
Blondes Have more Fun
Pickanenny
Dumb Blonde
Jezzabell
Jap
Hang with a new rope
Whitee
Wop
Kimosabe
Trailer Trash
Indian Summer
Paddy wagon
Spic
Spear chucker
Black Jew-Jew
Canuck
Jew Boy
Oriental

Pollock Welfare Bum
Colonial
Savage
Colored
Monkey
You People
Limp wrist
Queer
Caught Red Handed
Guinea Pig

The other ones I either haven't heard of or don't consider offensive...

Some of these words have their RARE proper context but most of them don't have a place in the work place.

The

is a gray area.

Posted: 8/15/2007 4:03:32 PM EDT

[#31]

I really don't think even the majority are offensive. A lot of us at work don't know what a whole lot of them are even supposed to mean in a negative context.

Posted: 8/15/2007 4:57:33 PM EDT

[#32]

We had to go to open house for the youngest child tonight who is starting kindergarten (German word, BAN IT!). We were told, they no longer have "rules". They are now called "Expectations".....Gimme a friggen break.

This political correctness shit will be the end of us.

Posted: 8/15/2007 5:04:23 PM EDT

[#33]

Guinea pig???????????????????

Is that supposed to be offensive to lab rodents?

That's the source, as in having someone try out something new to see if it works.

They are also a meat source in Peru.

I hope they don't think Italians would be offended by it.

Posted: 8/15/2007 5:07:04 PM EDT

[#34]

Blondes have more fun?

Posted: 8/15/2007 5:10:24 PM EDT

[#35]

You know, when I first joined the Army, for some reason I thought maybe I was joining an organization that didn't put up with so much complete BS, such as this. I don't know what I was thinking, I must have hit my head that day or something.

Posted: 8/15/2007 5:55:09 PM EDT

[#36]

Damn! they must have my house bugged

Posted: 8/15/2007 6:05:16 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
You know, when I first joined the Army, for some reason I thought maybe I was joining an organization that didn't put up with so much complete BS, such as this. I don't know what I was thinking, I must have hit my head that day or something.

Ugh, tell me about it.

Quoted:

Quoted:
According to that guidance they can't mention the United Negro College Fund or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

I'm offended.

Yep, a couple of us at work mentioned how she just made the NAACP a bad word apparently.

Next time I see her in person, I may play it off as if it was a joke. She's got two enlisted grades on me though.

Huge surprise there.

Posted: 8/15/2007 6:07:34 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I don't see Porch Monkey listed, that must still be ok.

It's ok. We took it back.

Posted: 8/15/2007 6:10:28 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Yep, a couple of us at work mentioned how she just made the NAACP a bad word apparently.

Next time I see her in person, I may play it off as if it was a joke. She's got two enlisted grades on me though.

Huge surprise there.

Yep. You could probably guess another characteristic of the person who sent it, but I can't say it, might be called a racist.

Posted: 8/15/2007 6:13:25 PM EDT

[#40]

Hmm I hear All those words on a daily basis...guess we fail

lol

Posted: 8/15/2007 6:52:56 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Here is the message:

Disclosure: Disparaging Terms that should not be used in the workplace. Some will find this list offensive just reading it. I became irritated just typing these words. However unfortunately we need a reminder that this is not appropriate in the work place. This list was derived from EO School (DEOMI). I did not come up with this list of hurtful words.
<blah blah blah>
Pickanenny
<blah blah blah>

sounds too close for comfort, I hope the Army is working on changing the name ASAP to avoid giving offense.
www.pica.army.mil/PicatinnyPublic/index.asp

Mick
Savage

Sucks if your name is Mick Savage ... 4 year enlistment of responding to "Hey You!"

Posted: 8/15/2007 7:04:31 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
You know, when I first joined the Army, for some reason I thought maybe I was joining an organization that didn't put up with so much complete BS, such as this. I don't know what I was thinking, I must have hit my head that day or something.

I feel your pain. I was under the same assumption. I also had the crazy notion that I would be around other conservatives. Boy was I wrong.

OMG , I'm so offended now. You are troooouuuublllee.

I like how she prefaced her list with " I didn't make this list...." Yeah apparently you did because the majority of these phrases I've never heard of, or have never heard used in an offensive context.

Red Bone????....thats a breed of dog.
Sounds Greek to me???....my understanding of this was just a colloquial way of comparison to Greek/Latin language, the old "dead language" as it has been called....meaning " I don't understand" .

This PC bullshit is ridiculous. What do they want us to do...point & grunt???

It's sad to see Common Sense in such short supply.

Posted: 8/15/2007 7:07:21 PM EDT

[#43]

You ricka Red Zeprin Round Eye, how bout Metarrica?

Thats not on the rist so you should say it!
Come itr be fun.
You could ask the EO if she wourd rike a ratte.

Oh and Jigaboo wasn't on the rist.

Posted: 8/16/2007 11:06:07 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Has anyone had a white male as an EO rep? Probably not. You couldnt put "The Man" in charge of that. Strangely enough "The Man" is not on the list.

Nope, not yet.

Until today, there was one in a class I had to take this morning.

Posted: 8/16/2007 11:29:36 AM EDT

[#45]

Indian summer???WTF???

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