An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Banning Words
From The Right Perspective:
Now that the city counil of New York has saved the metropolitan area from the “N-word“, the council has set its sights on another ethnically-associated word: ghetto.
Councilwoman Maria Baez has introduced a City Council resolution “declaring a symbolic ban on the negative use of the word ‘ghetto’ in New York City.”
Perhaps Councilwoman Baez is looking to exact some symbolic revenge against The New York Daily News, which ran an embarrassing account of her “going ghetto” by “cursing a blue streak [and] lunged across the table” at political player Stanley Schlein back in August.
Uh….do these maroons even know the origins of the word?
The term “ghetto” originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city’s Jews to live. Various authorities, ranging from local municipal authorities to the Austrian Emperor Charles V, ordered the creation of other ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and other cities in the 16th and 17th centuries.
It’s a word, with uses, and just like most words, has meaning. There is a history to this word that must NEVER be forgotten. I’m afraid the NY city council needs to get a grip on reality, and deal with the issues of the neighborhoods in question, and refrain from offensive behavior themselves.
