GASB renames financial report to avoid racist connotations

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is changing the term "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report" to "Annual Comprehensive Financial Report" because the abbreviation is often pronounced the same way as a derogatory term.

GASB issued a pronouncement Tuesday to change the term after some of its stakeholders raised concerns that the acronym of the prior name of the report sounds like an offensive term for Black South Africans when spoken. The changes in the name and acronym were widely supported by individuals and stakeholder groups that responded to an exposure draft it issued in April proposing the changes (see story).

Awareness of racial justice issues has been growing in the accounting profession, especially after the protests last year over the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. While the term that GASB is seeking to rename may not evoke racist connotations as much in the U.S., it does sound like an ethnic slur that was often used in Africa, particularly in apartheid-era South Africa.

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Yep, let's find yet another thing to completely waste time and energy over. After all, there are no real issues the country is facing right now...

So, let me get this right.

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The acronym for the comprehensive annual financial report generally is pronounced KAFF-ur. It has been pointed out to the GASB that that pronunciation sounds like the word kaffir, which is a profoundly offensive term directed at Black South Africans.

https://www.gasb.org/jsp/GASB/...ge&cid=1176175841947

OUR (U.S.) GASB is worried about offending South Africans?

What a colossal waste of time...

A report used for govt financial reasons, has to be renamed, because it so happens that its acronym shares a similar pronunciation as an apartheid era slur...context means nothing these days

Is the citrus fruit of the same name going to be changed? Got some farmers in SE Asia concerned about branding costs and such

Will the National Association of Gun Rights be forced to change their name next???

/sarc on

The new acronym ACFR sounds like 'aquifier' and so could be offensive to water-starved marginalized victims of oppression in globally-warmed nations who can only dream of aquifiers.

/sarc off

I've never heard of it, I don't know what it means, and I don't care.

I know the source of the problem, though, big as life.

For fuck's sake, how long before the wokerati go after CBC's Hockey Night In Canada?

This reminds me of the professor at USC who got suspended, b/c he a Chinese word he was explaining, nei ge, sounds like N-word in English.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Will the National Association of Gun Rights be forced to change their name next???

I see what you did there.

I wonder which .gov GASBag thought that up?

All because someone probably watched Lethal Weapon II recently ...

^^^

Haha, yes that’s the only reason I’m familiar with the term.

There is a tribe, deep in the Amazon that considers the following words to be offensive. ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC. In their language these are insults and cannot be tolerated.

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Originally posted by corsair:

Is the citrus fruit of the same name going to be changed? Got some farmers in SE Asia concerned about branding costs and such

The lime leaves that share that name are, in fact, also rooted in the same racist term.

Now, I don't particularly care, but the lime leaves deliberately refer to black Africa. I still call them kaffir lime leaves and they still call them that at the Asian markets where I shop for Asian ingredients.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Will the National Association of Gun Rights be forced to change their name next???

National Geospatial Agency is next for sure.

https://www.nga.mil/

Never even heard of this until today, great job teaching people more derogatory terms that they otherwise wouldn't have known.

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Originally posted by darkest2000:
Never even heard of this until today, great job teaching people more derogatory terms that they otherwise wouldn't have known.

And in languages that aren't English. So we stop using a similar sounding English word. Seems pretty stupid to me.

I wonder what the French would say if you suggested to them they stop using a French word that sounded similar to a racial insult in an obscure language used in India?

Creating perceived racist shit where there was none. Look at us, everybody, we're woke, too.