The Democratic president of the United States of America, the guy who ran against Donald Trump and just launched his campaign to do so again, just called someone "an illegal" in the State of the Union address

[Whack-a-Mole]

@crowmanyclouds

Now it’s your turn to show when uppity ever wasn’t “a bridge too far”.

As I said…already been there. So have you. Enjoy the read (again). I’m done with it.

The SDMB needs to have a banned words list

In a thread in IMHO about the new Martin Luther King statue in Boston I used the word “uppity.” @puzzlegal put in a mod note saying: I had NO idea that this word had racist baggage associated with it. NONE AT ALL. If you want to say I am stupid…fine. I really did not know. I use the word so rarely I cannot remember ever using it before. Context. Context, context, context. There is no reading of what I wrote that is racist. Instead, the mod saw “a word that is naughty” and pounced …