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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
He should have just told them he was a Treasury Officer.

Exactly. Who would claim to be that, who was not?

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:

I’m really sick of the constantly moving target WRT language. I’ve lived long enough to see “negro > colored > black > African-American”, and now kinda back to “black” again.

At one point “Queer” was off limits. Now it’s back on the menu, with it even included in the LGBTQ… string. At one point you could say “midget”, but now you have to say “little people,” notwithstanding that’s exactly what “midget” means.

I’m just getting to old to have to change my language every few years. If people get offended, then that’s their problem.

Exactly. When I was in grade school back in the 1940s and first learning geography, "Oriental" meant associated with the Far East and was in no way a disparaging term. A person from that part of the world was referred to as Oriental and there was no insult, no hurt feelings.

Since then, and I'm not sure when this happened nor the reason for it, it seems that "Oriental" is now a disparaging term and we should use "Asian."

I have a friend that is half Filipino and half white (but claims to be Asian on the census),
She told me that Asians are the people and Oriental is the food.

PC

Who makes up this shit about what words are good or bad?

Over my lifetime, we’ve gone from fighting is bad to words are bad to looks are bad to manners are bad. Who’s the authority on this pussification?

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Originally posted by PCWyoming:
I have a friend that is half Filipino and half white (but claims to be Asian on the census),
She told me that Asians are the people and Oriental is the food.

That's just brainwashed bullshit.

V-Tail is right.

Of course the lady isn’t going to open the door if you are banging on it and yelling at her with zero visible identification as law enforcement and not showing her any credentials.

I can see him going alone on a “follow-up” if there was no intent to confiscate the shotgun, but not even wearing a concealed ballistic vest is probably against agency protocols. Also not showing agency credentials while knocking on the door is probably against agency protocols; if not, it should be. I guarantee he has a second badge to the one in his wallet to be worn on his belt or around his neck. I also guarantee he had at least an ATF jacket and a ballistic carrier that said ATF in the vehicle. Had he been wearing anything identifiable exposed showing he was a federal agent and not been an ass banging on the lady’s door things would have probably gone a lot different. Sure she still might not have opened the door and still called the local police. That is where his next set of errors occurred when local LE responded and how he acted. He himself caused everything that took place.

Anyone know the outcome of the allegations of him stealing wine in 2015? Obviously he wasn’t fired.