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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8644259"><p>But I think this gets back to why twitter isn't a very good venue for sorting this stuff out. It is also very hard for people to know what is actually going on if the actual word isn't described by many of the news sites covering it (I actually had to come here to find out what the word was that she used). We should have organizations investigating before issuing a judgment but twitter pushes things in the opposite direction. And it looks like the writer she was talking about when she used the word has said it wasn't an issue. To me, this certainly looks conversation worthy. I don't use that word (and one of my issues with POC is how closely it resembles that word). But my gut reaction is she is an older woman who probably got her wires crossed trying to use POC or something to that extent. I could be wrong however. I think this sort of situation is the kind of thing that an organization should investigate before taking action. I think the twitter issue is it heightens the need for a rush to judgment and I don't think you get good outcomes that way (and I am not saying I am sure what the outcome should be as I am still learning about what happened, but it does seem like something that could more easily have been addressed by her saying she was sorry and meant to use another word). It is certainly a word a lot of people find off putting, and it isn't he preferred terminology, but when I saw a headline reading she had used a racial slur (and the article never said what word she had used) I immediately thought it must have been the N word or something on that level for another group.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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