1. An internal Office for Civil Rights memo from OCR employee
Elliott Bronstein suggests that  city of Seattle employees
refrain from using two terms ("brown bag" and "citizen") in
official city documents because they're "potentially offensive,"
KOMO reports. The memo has been ridiculed everywhere from the
Daily Mail to the conservative PJ Media as an example of typical
Left Coast P.C. nonsense.   But you know what? I'm with the
city. Words mean things, and they affect the way we think. The
meanings of words can't be divorced from their history, which is
why you no longer see words like "crippled," or "Negro," or
"policeman" in official documents anymore. The "brown bag test"
refers to the fact that lighter-skinned African Americans have
often been perceived as higher-status; inviting "citizens" to
attend a meeting implies that non-citizens (people who live here
but don't have citizen status) aren't welcome.   If there
weren't easy substitutes, I could understand the objections, but
there are—Bronstein, for e