The PC police are at it again. Now they say the mere use of the word “yellow” is offensive to Asians.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the saffron-ish details:
Asian-American activists offended that MARTA re-named the train line into the heart of Atlanta’s Asian community the “yellow line” will take their objections to the transit agency’s chief on Friday.
“Yellow,” as a term for skin color, carries a generally negative, racist connotation among Asians.MARTA officials were warned by an employee before the name change last October that Atlanta’s burgeoning Asian community would find the term for the line to Doraville offensive.
“Historically, it has had a derogatory intent,” said John Park, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Pan Asian Community Services in Doraville, just down the hill from the Marta station. “It physically paints a very unattractive picture. I don’t consider myself ‘yellow.’”
No more yellow lights. No more yellow-bellied sapsuckers. No more yellow cowards.
And, of course, no more sanity.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021


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So does that mean a lawsuit against French's YELLOW Mustard is at hand?
What about all those YELLOW cabs?
I think they should bring back Screaming Yelow Zonkers just to p*ss them all off!
Freakin' Semi-Epsilon Morons!
has anybody ever seen a yellow asian?
come to think of it has anybody ever seen a yellow human?
MARTA - you don't have to live in Atlanta to have heard that - Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta.
Funny that. Ask someone from Atlanta what they think M.A.R.T.A. stands for....
Don't know that the Asians have much to complain about in comparison.
I honestly think the only people that I have ever actually thought of as being yellow are Homer, Marge and the rest of the Simpson family.
I suggest we replace the use of "Yellow" in common culture with the term "Asian Colored". we could even do shades like "Nip colored" or "Chink Colored"
This would be much more respective of derogatory terms such as "Yellow"