Word police update: “Yellow” bows to “gold” as grievance-mongers bawl
I meant to mention this last week — so many p.c. buffooneries, so little time. Remember that story I blogged on the 9th about Asian-Americans protesting a Metro rail line in Atlanta dubbed the “yellow” line? Well, the inevitable submission to “sensitivity” took place last Friday — with transportation officials offering abject apologies to the grievance-mongers claiming imperial moral authority:
Tears, hugs, thanks, apologies and the occasional recrimination marked the long-awaited meeting between MARTA CEO Beverly Scott and local Asian-American leaders.
They met one day after MARTA announced it was changing the newly dubbed “yellow” line to “gold.” The line runs to Doraville, home to a large Asian-American community.
The word “yellow” has historically been used to denigrate Asians.
“I just didn’t pick it up, no question,” Scott told Helen Kim, director of advocacy and education at the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, who spearheaded the meeting. “We are so sorry, and I am so sorry.”
Kim reached out to grasp Scott’s hand as she told her that the groups had tried to address the issue quietly but couldn’t get traction. Scott teared up as she spoke of the importance of Atlanta’s civil rights past. After Scott explained that MARTA hadn’t received a single complaint from an average citizen, and after Kim said that average citizens had complained to ethnic advocacy groups and suggested rallies or boycotts, Scott reached out for a hug.
I’d say the rail bureaucrats were bowing and scraping like serfs before Mandarins, but that might offend someone.
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I guess I won’t have that yellow rice tonight will I?
Wait, mandarin is an orange. Does that mean we can’t use orange as a color? Kind of like when they took the “flesh” color out of the Crayola box.
This PC thing is way out of control.
On a lighter note, one of my friends (who is Caucasian) is really an African-American because her grandmother was Algerian (French colony). She figured that out at ladies’ night a week ago (after we all had several glasses of wine). Now we think she can get those minority-minority-minority contracts. *sigh* but who will believe her? They might think she is making fun…..
This is indeed an outrage. Atlanta is at the epicenter of the civil rights asian grievance industry, and Scott should be well aware that ANY action on her part would be immediately considered contrived assault on these oppressed people.
Maybe Holder was right after all, when he called us “A Nation of Cowards”(TM) — just not for the reason he thought.
Gold line? Well, here come the Jewish people complaining it’s derogatory to them. Everyone is “sensitve” to get their moment of fame in the news.
Wow, and this is how world peace is obtained!
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The Yellow Line in DC has a stop at Chinatown. The Green Line shares the stop, as does the Red Line. Perhaps this is an homage to Al Gore getting money from (and sharing environmental tips with?) Chinese Communists.
Or they’re just colors.
I certainly hope MZ. Scott offered a box of Kleenex to the offended…after all, how else could they move on.
Now it’s the “Gold Line”. As a golden-skinned Adonnis, I am offended. (Heh-heh. As if.)
I’m tickled pink they came to a conclusion…
In a city were race is a major factor in local government and the CEO of MARTA is black I have to wonder what was going on in MARTA’s managements thinking when news reports, like quoted below, indicate they knew there might be a problem with this color choice before they ever did it?
Isn’t this another example of government incompetence?
OK – so here’s MY grievance – - as a person of Italian heritage, I demand that “doo wop” music be banned and that those singers and groups who profited by these offensive songs not only apologize but also pay reparations. Heck, if all these other bozos can play the “I’m offended” card, why not I?
I’m going to seriously reconsider eating out at Asian restaurants, I mean eating their food and paying them money for it could be considered a bribe…. or extortion – whichever, but I just know I somehow offended someone so there’s this lovely little Italian restaurant right next door.
Madness folks…total lunacy.
I’m not Asian but if I was, I would demand that all traffic lights change those demeaning colors to other non-offensive ones. Stop for the red man. Use caution around the yellow people. How offensive. Signage will need to conform also. How about those terrorist warning colors; now that’s got to be offensive.
Or we could all just get a life.
They gave up the yellow line and replaced it with a giant yellow streak.
Kinda reminds me of this video. The girl probably had to go to sensitivity classes after this.
I guess that Rev Lowery’s wish that the “yellow will be mellow” will have to wait a little longer.
I guess we need to put a ‘clear’ color on anything that has anything to do with this gosh horrible pc group. Is ‘clear’ gonna get someones panties in a wad?
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No. But “panties in a wad” is sexist! You need to be re-educated.
flenser,
Thanks, but I am way tooo old to be re-educated.
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I know “boatloads” of Asians, and doubt any of them would care if a train had a yellow line. Don’t stop eating that good food.
In that case, the correct expression is “don’t get your Depends in a wad…”
AlohaGuy,
It seems almost everyone is covered here with the pc thing. Y’all are good!
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Actually calling it the GOLD line could refer to the amount of money wasted on this whole fiasco. Or even the amount of money generally wasted by rapid transit systems all over America.
Even Freud said, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.”
(No Bill Clinton jokes, please.)
When will these grievance mongers get a clue?
Hey, I wouldn’t be offended if they called it the big, bald middle-aged guy line, even if it did stop at my house.
My brother tried to convince me that all public transit has to be subsidized. That’s stupid. If there were multiple transit companies competing for the same riders, the prices would go down and service levels would go up.
But the liberal (re: ignorant) viewpoint is that the transit companies would collude with each other and create a monopoly. As opposed to the government monopoly, which socialists claim is good.
Morons.
We’re just joshing you, letget.
I guess the race mongers got a little taste of the race mongoring.
EFFING morons
Yellow and red are my favorite colors…..does that mean I’m racist?
WTH! I’m sick and tired of the Chinese thinking they own us! Oh yeah, they do.
Is that referencing our congress and president? If so, you sure have that right.
Maybe we should just acronym it:
Moving
Asians
Rapidly
Through
Atlanta
OK, so now, is it YELLOW GOLD or WHITE GOLD…?
idiots
When being politically correct stops being a lucrative endeavor. As the saying goes, follow the money.
Somebody please tell these people that “Gold” is insensitive to the poor. And are they implying that the Asian “Gold Line” district is where all the money is? Heck, this “Gold” line might even have something to do with Glenn Beck for all we know.
Asian references aside, “Yellow” seems a lot more liberal-friendly — as in “streak” and “belly”…
Only when there’s no power or money to be had in the business.
“white” gold might be racist now wouldn’t it??
A long time ago in La La land, we had the Redline running from Long Beach into L.A, the old Pacific Electric street cars). We had the YELLOW line (Metropolitan) line running from downtown to the west, Hawthorne, and Southwest. 15 years ago the Gold Line opened from L.A. to Pasadena. If they had named it YELLOW, which is what the color looks like would there have been a P.C. storm in 1995? Yes, I think so. What a bunch of crap.
No, you can’t. Charlie Crist will be offended.
As a weight challenged-European-American I take offense to Fat Tuesday, and demand the name be changed. Perhaps to Not Thin But Would Like To Be Tuesday. /sarc
Just sayin’.
So, can I complain about the Red Line in DC and Maryland denigrating Commies? And there is a Yellow Line here too. I am sure there is at least one Asian person along that route. And I suspect the Green Line isn’t all that green at all…
This is so far past moronic that you just have to laugh at these people…
I just saw some Oompah Loompahs protesting at Dudley Station.
(On hindsight that was a bit too esoteric, they were protesting that the MBTA tore down the old elevated Dudley station on the orange line and created a new Dudley station on a new silver line.)
Isn’t gold just another word for a yellow hue? Was this much ado about nothing?
Uh-oh harbormaster, you just admitted you’re a threat to our national security. You’re in big trouble now!
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The English usage to describe a person’s basic racial or ethnic group is inconsistent.
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Most people refer to a Black or White person without intending to demean them.
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However, we usually refer to Asiatic people as Oriental–from the East–rather than referring to them as Yellow people. The Indian, Arabic and Hispanic people are usually referred to this way instead of being called Red or Brown people.
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And somehow African-American seems less appropriate than Black. Ditto for European or Gavacho for White people–we don’t refer to them as Nordic or European-Americans–or as Caucasians.
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John Bibb
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Atlanta is the epicenter of the race victimization cottage industry. They have plenty of entrenched systems in place to ensure that this kind of PC BS ensues. This is their token to ‘prove’ that they aren’t only about African American rights. In the A-T-L even the blacks are suspected of being racist against the blacks.
I am sure Michelle you eagerly await the hate mail charging you as a race traitor for not being hypersensitive to the color yellow.
If only others could be so mellow.
Can we still use it to denote cowards?
Was there some kind of vote in the area to elect these Asian-American leaders? Could they be as Phoenix’s “reformed” gang bangers who become Hispanic Leaders?
Hell, why not call it, “The A-Train.” Duke Ellington would have!
The real victim here is the, “Yellow bellied sapsucker,” which as a member of the woodpecker family was already struggling with gender stereotypes.
I wonder if I can sell my urine to these liberals by telling them it is gold? Of course that would involve changing from the Troy oz. to the fluid oz.
All kidding aside, I just feel so proud of the racial progress our nation is making under the leadership of President BO who is moving us to a post racial, “era of odor.”
Me-thinks some company just got free advertising.
George: Is there a pinkish hue?
Jerry: A pinkish hue?
George: Yes, a rosy glow.
Jerry: There’s a hue.
Good one RC, just saw that Seinfeld episode a couple weeks ago. Do you have a separate computer open to IMDB at all times for just such an occasion?
I was also wondering when Charlize Theron will demand equal rights as an African-American……She is so opressed!
Yellow, Gold, Blue, Red, yadda, yadda. I’m sure naming by color is cute, catchy, and colorful. But, the colors don’t tell me where the lines runs. And I’m color blind so all the colors offend me!
Why not just toss the PC color schemes out and JUST NAME THE LINES BASED ON THE CONNECTiONS AND TERMINUS. SO I KNOW WHERE THE LINE GOES!!!!
Stupid hang-up on colors. Meh!
So, add ‘yellow’ to the list of words that are no longer allowed in newspeak English?
I posted on this a couple of day ago.
Are Crayons No Longer PC
Can’t do that!!! They are the only restaurants you KNOW are going to be open on that Winter Holidy that falls on December 25.
BTW, anyone remember that inane description of a black leader from Africa by, I think it was Donna Brazile but not certain, who couldn’t bring herself to say “black”, but said he was an “African-American African”??????? I couldn’t find the quote anywhere, but I DID see it on tv when it happened.