USOC Apologizes to the Congo for Apologizing to Brazil

I missed the part about apologizing to the Congo. In any event, the USOC should just apologize to the whole damn world for having so many culturally and geographically ignorant people.

or maybe people can stop being such pansies and take a damn joke. a crappy one at that. when did everyone become such pussbags?

oh, i'd say sometime around the Vietnam War.

I try to find the point in time that the world became pussies. (Oops, I better apologize to the world for comparing it to a slang for a part of a woman's body!)

The 70's were fine, I think it was a gradual decline during the 80's, then you had to be politically correct.

After reading that thread title I was expecting a link to The Onion.

ormaybe wrote:

or maybe people can stop being such pansies and take a damn joke. a crappy one at that. when did everyone become such pussbags?

I seem to remember it coming into vogue around the time of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill uproar.

And I agree with your sentiments.

Yes, you're right. You could no longer joke with people. I remember my friends using derogitive ethnic names with me (Italian) and with my black friends and Jewish friends. No one seemed to care, we were friends.

You could say, "I'm gonna kill him." and not be put into therapy.

You're right. No one should be offended by being compared to a dictatorial third-world country rife with poverty, disease, and violence while one's own country has become highly developed and a mjor player in world affairs. And it's certainly ridiculous to be offended when two distinct and seperate cultures are marginalized and combined into one generic dark-skinned people, which is what that joke implies. No, I wouldn't be offended at all...

Time for the USOC to apologize to Brazil for apologizing to the Congo....

I think that the USOC should apologize to letsrun.com. The only question would be, would wejo, rojo, mojo, et al accept the apology?

Purple wrote:

You're right. No one should be offended by being compared to a dictatorial third-world country rife with poverty, disease, and violence while one's own country has become highly developed and a mjor player in world affairs. And it's certainly ridiculous to be offended when two distinct and seperate cultures are marginalized and combined into one generic dark-skinned people, which is what that joke implies. No, I wouldn't be offended at all...

Case in point.

Correct, Purple is part of the problem. Let's be nice, now. You wouldn't want to hurt anyone's self esteem. It's like the world is one big Middle School- everyone is a winner!!!

Brazil also has a lot of poverty, disease and violence.

I am sure that there is some backstory to it like a joke or comment and someone wrote that comment as a reference to some other joke.

Also, my guess is that it was not a USOC employee and someone else should have erased the message.

In the scheme of things, big f***ing deal.