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It’s come to this
Security services chief Brian Douglas wrote: “IB (Information Board) are uncomfortable with the use of the term Whitelist (and I presume Blacklist).
“I am sure we can appreciate the sensitivity around the use of such terminology today so please ensure it is no longer used.” He suggested using green and red list instead.
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Beyond parody.
dczombie on May 7, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Martians and Indians would not approve.
HawaiiLwyr on May 7, 2012 at 12:50 PM
Woot! No more white collar crimes.
lorien1973 on May 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Christmas list?
Bitter Clinger on May 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM
What is the color of night?
derecho on May 7, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Morons.
ButterflyDragon on May 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM
So are successful businesses in the black? I bet that one is okay.
Besides, weren’t we told in the ’70s that Black is Beautiful? So what’s the problem?
keep the change on May 7, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Black holes hardest hit.
rbj on May 7, 2012 at 12:57 PM
The enviro-commies won’t admit it, but green is the new red.
Lost in Jersey on May 7, 2012 at 12:57 PM
I’m offended by the word “red”!!!
Please send money and benefits.
landlines on May 7, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Ugh… and they ask me why I drink
Ugly on May 7, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Colors of all types will eventually be banned … just like the Euro’s want to do away with the use of gender pronouns.
Of course this will all come to a head one day in a bloody global war. People will eventually reach their limit with socialists trying to tell them what they can and cannot do and re-volt.
History will keep repeating and repeating.
darwin on May 7, 2012 at 12:59 PM
No sillier than the HA word filter. At least Scotland Yard gives a hint as to which words are verboten
a capella on May 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM
I guess ‘red ink’ and ‘in the black’ are out too.
reddevil on May 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM
So those blacklisted in the 1950s in the US were REALLY red after all? *confused*
Paul-Cincy on May 7, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Traffic signals will have to be replaced with text versions…in multiple languages…QUICKLY, while we can still use letters which are different from one another!!!
landlines on May 7, 2012 at 1:03 PM
I feel a tingling in my high cheek bones… something is wrong here.
mankai on May 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM
The muzzies will not even have to take the Europeans over this time…the lambs are walking right into the corrals.
Schadenfreude on May 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM
Is white boy out?
Ask Tucker Carlson. Jahmu is a racist.
Schadenfreude on May 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM
It’s a black day.
BacaDog on May 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Does this mean we can no longer call static “white noise?”
CurtZHP on May 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Green peas are racist. Just ask any black-eyed pea.
Snap peas are just gay.
Ugly on May 7, 2012 at 1:10 PM
What am I going to do with my black and white TV?
BacaDog on May 7, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Feed it a dog.
Ugly on May 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM
What will Crayola do to label the two colors-that-shall-not-be-named?
Bitter Clinger on May 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM
The West is fully determined to kill itself. There does not seem to be one sane nation left in the West. Pathetic. And we’re just as bad for voting for Suicide By Indonesian Dog-Eater for the same reasons that this British retard is mouthing.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on May 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM
“Information Board”? I don’t want to go all Godwin by invoking Orwell, but this reminds me of 1984′s “Ministry of Truth”. It is so deemed that “blacklist” is racist. The Information Board has spoken. It’s nothing else but a mind f*** of rational, aware, thinking people. And this in a supposedly free society.
Paul-Cincy on May 7, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Next up: the lewd shortness of dresses on the “Women” icon for restroom doors. Sexism!
DarthBrooks on May 7, 2012 at 1:15 PM
The authors of this new policy are red.
Paul-Cincy on May 7, 2012 at 1:15 PM
I remember a picture of Obama writing on a blackboard (since whiteboards had not yet been invented, I suppose.)
Just which kind of board is someone of mixed heritage allowed to use?
Peri Winkle on May 7, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Paul-Cincy on May 7, 2012 at 1:13 PM
My dad retired from the USIA… never talked about his work
Ugly on May 7, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Next up: Smurfs to file class-action lawsuit over the term ‘blue-collar’…
affenhauer on May 7, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Airstrip One is lost.
single stack on May 7, 2012 at 1:39 PM
BREAKING:
Scotland Yard blacklists the word “Blacklist”
BobMbx on May 7, 2012 at 2:10 PM
So, when feeling a bit depressed, one should say “i’m feeling Smurf”?
44Magnum on May 7, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Next up: Jewelry.
I mean, what’s up with associating Jews with gold??
Ben Hur on May 7, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Redlist? Elizabeth Warren will bee suing on grounds of discrimination.
WeekendAtBernankes on May 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Im sure all the African-Americans in England are relieved.
Rich on May 7, 2012 at 2:29 PM
I’m surprised we haven’t done this in the US already.
Didn’t California Ban the inappropriate drive designations like a decade ago in favor of “primary and secondary”?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/
2003, close enough for my memory.
How is this any more or less silly than “blacklist/whitelist”? I’d say we’ve already cleared this threshold.
gekkobear on May 7, 2012 at 2:39 PM