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Black Spanish Teacher Fired for Saying “Negro”
This cautionary tale warns of the perils of not keeping your Newspeak dictionary updated. Not long ago, negro was the most common term for blacks, as evidenced by entities such as the United Negro College Fund. However, in order to create thought criminals to punish, permissible terminology is changed constantly. The term negro is evidently forbidden now — under all circumstances:
A teacher has been fired for using the word “negro,” and she is now filing a lawsuit against the school saying that her use of the word was not in a racial context, but was purely educational.
The teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith, taught Spanish at Bronx school PS 211, but was fired in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported the alleged insult, which surrounded the teacher’s use of the word “negro.”
Smith, who herself is black and a native of the West Indies, has since said that things have been lost in translation, and that she was simply using the Spanish word for the color “black” at the time.
The idea is to keep all of us in a constant state of hysterical fear that we will accidently say or even think something that falls outside the bounds of the leftist orthodoxy preached by our ruling class
This cautionary tale warns of the perils of not keeping your Newspeak dictionary updated. Not long ago, negro was the most common term for blacks, as evidenced by entities such as the United Negro College Fund. However, in order to create thought criminals to punish, permissible terminology is changed constantly. The term negro is evidently forbidden now — under all circumstances:
A teacher has been fired for using the word “negro,” and she is now filing a lawsuit against the school saying that her use of the word was not in a racial context, but was purely educational.
The teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith, taught Spanish at Bronx school PS 211, but was fired in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported the alleged insult, which surrounded the teacher’s use of the word “negro.”
Smith, who herself is black and a native of the West Indies, has since said that things have been lost in translation, and that she was simply using the Spanish word for the color “black” at the time.
The idea is to keep all of us in a constant state of hysterical fear that we will accidently say or even think something that falls outside the bounds of the leftist orthodoxy preached by our ruling class
