The chief of the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) is banning the term “brown out” to describe unstaffed units. He implies the term is racist.
According to a June 13 memo, obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH, chief Harold Scoggins said the SFD “will no longer use the term ‘brown out’ when describing department apparatus that aren’t in service.” The department will use the term “units unstaffed” moving forward.
The term “brown out” means a portion of the total staffing, such as a medical unit, is offline. After the city sidelined unvaccinated firefighters, units have routinely gone unstaffed.
Citing unspecified “concerns,” Scoggins claims the term is offensive to communities of color.
Except, it isn’t. And the SFD has not yet been able to provide any documentation to back up the claim.
The memo caught the staff off guard. They didn’t know the chief was pretending the term “brown out” is offensive.
“Concerns were raised that the term ‘brown out’ has negative connotations for communities of color. This change has been made to reaffirm SFD’s commitment and mission to serve all communities with dignity and respect,” Scoggins wrote.
The chief asked staff to “ensure that any formal or informal communications going forward, whether in department emails, memos, etc., uses ‘units unstaffed’ to refer to engine, trucks, aid cars, medic units, etc., that are unavailable due to staffing.”
In addition to asking the SFD to explain who complained about the term, I asked how it’s offensive. A spokesperson did not respond before publication. If they respond, I will add details.
No, the term doesn’t have negative connotations
The term “brown out” does not have “negative connotations for communities of color.” This is a wholly contrived issue that the chief is using to signal his wokeness. It’s as if he was under pressure to show his commitment to “equity” but couldn’t think of any that are woke enough, so he made up an issue for the pats on the back he’ll no doubt receive
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I’m pretty sure he needs to have a chat with Starbucks about their ‘mocha’ and ‘chocolate’ products.
suck dick, asshole
HORA LAY!!! Ju know we have our “Brown outs” on Cinco de Mayo!
I think it’s time we start implementing the term, “Lights Out” on these imbeciles.
I guess I’d better stop saying “brown eye”, huh?
That’s going to be a black mark on his record.
So Scoggins must be one of the mud people.
What can Brown do for you?
Nothin’
We’re not allowed to even say it.
If he were qualified for the position he would be focusing on impressing his superiors by leading the Department in fulfilling their core mission. This is as much as an admission that he is unqualified in that roll and since he knows that the way to impress the Seattle government is to show them he is on board with the nonsense they can relate to. That’s how they were selected by moron voters in Seattle so, of course he is going to show them he is on Team Virtue Signal with them.
How about they change it to ” condition of color”?
The term “units unstaffed” is offensive to men. Try again wokester.
we need to apply a number to each color so we can avoid saying the color, but when the number gets known as the color we will need to ban the number, some folks don’t want to bother teaching math anyway.
If using the term brown out is now offensive, it has joined the equally now worthless terms whiteout and blackout as being offensive, to anyone who has a disagreement with a POC. Stop, the bullshit now before we can’t say a damned word about anything without offending someone because of political correctness.
next is blackout, wonder to what they replace it?
Anyone this stupid has no business being a Fire Chief, or a first responder, or even a street sweeper.
White out – condition of zero visibility in a snow storm.
Brown out – bathroom floor covered with liquid shit from a fat aunt who clogged the toilet and kept flushing.
Black out – poisonous black mold all over your wall’s in an un-ventilated house in the Louisiana bayou.
Yellow out – room full of Chinese Communists or Democrats.
Blue out – room full of blue-haired, Millennial, idiot girls.
Green out – large throng of tree-hugging crybabies who hate the human race.
Orange out – large crowd of appropriately-dressed, Trump supporters at a Trump rally.
Ultra MAGA out – largest voting block in the United States.
Why am I not surprised? What does amaze me is the real estate market in Seattle. Multi million dollar condos in downtown? Who in their right mind would even want to live in downtown Seattle much less pay millions for an apartment??
This kind of crap makes me want to puce.
What shall we call it; dark tan??
Stupidity continues to feed on itself.
Honky Out
So what is the Esteemed Chief going to call it when there’s reduced power in the area?
Or NO power in the area? Especially at night?
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist SuperStraight:
mostly peaceful protest time.
reparations?
As the city burns, they’ll obsess about pronouns. Oh, well. Not my zoo, not my monkeys.
Hmmm-I always thought a “brownout” was an exceptionally messy shart.
…and here I thought they said “Chief” was a bad word…
https://iotwreport.com/san-francisco-school-district-bans-chief-from-job-titles-over-native-american-links/
Cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it. What an insufferable, race baiting cry baby.
toilet paper is white (currently) & solid waste is not, obvious racism in action