Democrats in Charge Wrote:
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> 1. “Some of my best friends are …”
> 2. “I know exactly how you feel.”
> 3. “I don’t think of you as …”
> 4. “The same thing happens to me too.”
> 5. “It was only a joke! Don’t take things so
> seriously.”
> 6. What do ‘your’ people think.”
> 7. “What are you?” or “Where are you really
> from?”
> 8. “I don’t see color” or “I’m color
> blind.”
> 9. “You are so articulate.”
> 10. “It is so much better than it used to be.
> Just be patient.”
> 11. “You speak the language very well.”
> 12. Asking black people about their hair or
> hygiene.
> 13. Saying to LBGTQ people “what you do in the
> privacy of your own bedroom is your business.”
> 14. “Yes, but you are a ‘good’ one.”
> 15. “You have such a pretty face.”
> 16. “I never owned slaves.”
> 17. “If you are going to live in this country,
> learn to speak the language!”
> 18. “She/he is a good person. She/he didn’t
> mean anything by it.”
> 19. “When I’ve said the same thing to other
> people like you, they don’t mind.”
> 20. Calling women “girls, honey, sweetie pie”
> or other familiar terms.
> 21. When people of color say, “It is not the
> same thing.”
> 22. When people of faith say, “Love the sinner,
> hate the sin.”
> 23. When white men say, “We are the ones being
> discriminated against now!”
> 24. Referring to older people as “cute.”
> 25. Asking a transgender person, “What are you
> really? A man or a woman?”
> 26. Referring to the significant other, partner,
> or spouse of a same gender couple as their
> “friend.”
> 27. “Why do ‘they’ (fill in the blank)
> always have to sit together? They are always
> sticking together.”
> 28. “People just need to pick themselves up by
> their bootstraps.”
> 29. People with disabilities are
> “courageous.”
> 30. “That’s so gay/queer. That’s so
> retarded.”
> 31. “I don’t see difference. We are all part
> of the same race, the human race.”
> 32. I don’t care if you are pink, purple or
> orange, I treat all people the same.”
> 33. Asking a transgender person, “Have you had
> the operation.”
> 34. Saying to a Jewish person, “You are so lucky
> to have ‘your’ Christmas spread over a
> week!”
> 35. “Here’s another book on political
> correctness.”
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http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29307/
35 reasons my kids will never go to JMU.