Session #93 · 1973–75

Speech #930289360

Mr. Speaker. the Sunday paper informs us that "the most unusual forms of discrimination occur in four job orders" sent by a Congressmans office to the Congressional Office of Placement and Office Management. The description in one application to supply an employee lists in the form. under "Special Skills and Requirements." the following description: "Attractive. smart. young and no Catholics or water signs." It is good to know that there are some enterprising souls here on the Hill thinking about what we can use for objects of discrimination when black genes become too diffused. immigrant tongues too fluent. and sects too flexible to longer afford us an object of hate. It took a budding young Goebbels on somebodys staff to envisage chauvinism based on the zodiac. or. if it were a Congressman. an uncharacteristically innovative one. For those who have been worried about bigotry gradually fading away for failure of identifiable victims. this fresh approach gives new hope.
Keywords matched
immigrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Cultural threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT ECKHARDT
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
930289360
Paragraph
#0
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