Because there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.

What if your local football team was trying to recruit more technically minded people and tweeted this:

    YO GEEKTARDS: y u nerds no apply yet? only 6 days left!

Would it be 'manufacturing outrage' if you made a comment about that not being the best way to go about things?

Wouldn't offend me, but I wouldn't expect them to get many applications either.

The thing is, just because you or I don't see how something is offensive doesn't mean that it isn't. A phrase like "real injustice" is our way of subtly saying "we get to define what injustice is, you don't."

Well, you're not a woman who has to put up with cat-calling and name-calling on the street so I wouldn't expect you to see it as disrespectful. Mr. McClure didn't see it as disrespectful at first either until a number of his followers helped him understand why it would be.

This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.

Any usage of Ebonics no matter how playful can upset a person, especially when that person hangs out with butterflies in designer clothing hovering over the unwashed peeps is my guess.

A quick glance at the urban dictionary should be enough to get you started: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=miss%20thang

It's a bit like reminding African American participants to sign up using one of the terms from http://www.rsdb.org/race/blacks

Thats it. I was confused too. I thought the term was just slang, and not a slur that meant anything. So, shows how we all can learn and be better.

I agree, this piece seems to be more pr than anything else.

hey tonedeaf brogrammer.... /snark