Blogs abuzz over Army’s forbidden wordsBy Brendan McGarry - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Nov 30, 2007 21:33:30 EST
A list generated by the Army of derogatory words to avoid in the workplace has sparked heated commentary on the Internet.
Michelle Malkin, a nationally syndicated columnist, used a submission from an anonymous “military reader” as the subject of a Nov. 28 blog, “More Diversity Lunacy: The Army Intelligence and Security Command’s list of forbidden words.”
The submission included screenshots of an Army Knowledge Online portal showing an e-mail from an Army Intelligence and Security Command Equal Opportunity office that included an attachment of disparaging terms “that should not be used in the workplace.”
“Some of the words on this list wouldn’t be used in the workplace by most people with any common sense — but some of the words on the list are ridiculous and epitomize the overreaching hysteria of the
speech police,” the anonymous “military reader” wrote.
The list posted on the blog contains 76 words and phrases the Army office considers inappropriate, ranging from patently offensive racial slurs to the seemingly innocuous, such as “colonial.”
News of the forbidden terms spread quickly in cyberspace and had generated dozens of colorful responses by Nov. 30.
uhc comment: I checked out Malkin's blog, and as expected, it's bullshit. Now I need to take a shower.
on edit: the 'Rest of article' link was the same as the link at the top of the page. I have NO clue why the first one works and the second one doesn't. I decided to delete the second link.