MANSFIELD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut senator has issued a formal apology after she used an anti-black racial slur during a meeting with the University of Connecticut College Democrats.
The student group says Democratic state Sen. Gayle Slossberg used the term during a meeting on Oct. 3. In a statement on Wednesday, the group says she used the word without euphemisms to describe her work removing books with racial epithets from grade school libraries.
Slossberg says she used the word as it appeared in a children’s book, and she was trying to convey why the word has no place in society. The senator says she has since sent a formal apology to the club.
The club says the use of the word is “reprehensible” and “unjustifiable” regardless of the context
What? Seriously? “Unjustifiable regardless of context”? Even uttering the word “to describe her work removing books with racial epithets from grade school libraries”? And “using the word as it appeared in a children’s book” that she was condemning?
I’m sorry. This is nuts. Mindless nuts.
Is this really news? She apologized and the apology was accepted.
Move on.
I don’t see the part where the apology was accepted. Declaring the conduct “reprehensible and unjustifiable” regardless of the context falls somewhat short of “accepting the apology.”
Context is everything. As Jew, I recoil at the word kike. But if it is used to describe what anti-Semites said about me or one of my people, that is entirely different.
Political correctness that becomes hypersensitivity is not only censorship, but provides room for the haters to do their work.
according to the speech police, you are reprehensible, because, regardless of context, you did not use the term “the k word” … this sounds like a parody of political correctness run amok