British Freedom of Speech withered, dying

[Caliga]

Nein. 

[Eddie Teach]

The map looks like a purple dildo. 

[Caliga]

The map looks like a purple dildo. 

You should be focused on the blue butt plug rather than the purple dildo.

[crazy canuck]

grumbler, that cannot be true, because wiki said the melting pot was just a myth.

You should talk to your grandparents, and set them straight.

[garbon]

  Sure it has, Emperor Norton!  Everybody will obey your command to use the new term... er, whatever it is.

I don't recall demanding that anyone use the term.  Just seems silly to use a rather inaccurate (in my opinion) term like melting pot.  Oh and by the way, it was in high school that I was taught not to use melting pot. Hardly the rarefied heights of academia or sociological circles.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't recall demanding that anyone use the term.  Just seems silly to use a rather inaccurate (in my opinion) term like melting pot.  Oh and by the way, it was in high school that I was taught not to use melting pot. Hardly the rarefied heights of academia or sociological circles.

If you were taught not to use it, rather than simply not being taught to use it, that sounds like a political agenda at work.

[Berkut]

  Sure it has, Emperor Norton!  Everybody will obey your command to use the new term... er, whatever it is.

I don't recall demanding that anyone use the term.  Just seems silly to use a rather inaccurate (in my opinion) term like melting pot. 

How is it more inaccurate than "salad bowl"?

[garbon]

If you were taught not to use it, rather than simply not being taught to use it, that sounds like a political agenda at work.

Well it was in the textbook as outmoded theory. Not much the teachers could do about that.

[Admiral Yi]

The salad bowl doesn't account for intermarriage.  The melting pot does.

[Berkut]

The salad bowl doesn't account for intermarriage.  The melting pot does.

Plus the salad bowl is full of salad, and who really like salad anyway?

[Berkut]

If you were taught not to use it, rather than simply not being taught to use it, that sounds like a political agenda at work.

Well it was in the textbook as outmoded theory.

It isn't a theory, so how could it be an outmoded theory?

[garbon]

Plus the salad bowl is full of salad, and who really like salad anyway?

The thin and glamorous.

[garbon]

It isn't a theory, so how could it be an outmoded theory?

Sorry, I'm not up for word games this morning.  Concept, idea, metaphor, whatever.

[grumbler]

It isn't a theory, so how could it be an outmoded theory?

To the some of the politically correct, it is unacceptable, and since one cannot dismiss a metaphor, they upgraded it to a theory so that it could be dismissed as "outmoded."

[garbon]

Boy, you two really are a barrel of fun.