#news-worthyness

[ditzydisaster13]

Voltron (VLD) Lion theories.

The Blue lion is adapable and friendly. Supportive as the right leg of voltron. Putting others before it. Her element is water. Guardian of the water. She swims well, and shoots ice. She was the best for lance while he gained some self confidence. But its also why she took in allura and kept her.

The yellow lion is similar. Heavy and kind, courageous and simple. Slow moving, but mighty. He is the guardian of the land. Of stone and rock and things reliable. Left leg of voltron, serves as a crutch, leverage, balance. Which is why hunk stayed

The green lion is of intelligence and energy. Energy in tech. And in life. Quick to make changes and adjust. Also one of the faster lions. Because energy. Pidge is the youngest, still growing into her body and her smarts. She’s learning and becoming better. Temper smoothing out like removing thorns. Piece by piece her puzzle becomes whole again.

The black lion. Guardian of the sky. Constant and yet ever changing. Always something new. Ready to make adjustments and go with whatever. Strong and powerful. It’s why she has wings. Sky. Stars, and planets blinking. She is as large as the universe is vast. Reaching out just as far. Which is why the astral plane works. As for Shiro, keith, and clone shiro? Well, Zarkon. Zarkon corrupted. Which is probably why Black felt that clone shiro was shiro. He was following a similar path. But one was more gradual than the other. Easier to trick her. (Imma assume she didn’t already know..) then for keith? Galra blood is apart of him. Hes getting stronger and better at learning with the changes. Leading himself and others.

-> -> -> as for red? The red lion? King alfor, and Keith? Eventually Lance? Well that started this whole thing!!

King Alfor was kind, and friendly. A little spontaneous. But generous and good natured. With a fun loving side that mixes all of these ideals. He knew how to rule, and how to be a family man. How to be a friend.

Keith, started out very stubborn and hot headed. Lover of family like Alfor, but untrusting of others like the former king was. He had his moments and his grace. His responsibility and respectablities too. Hes growing. Which is why he eventually became the black paladin. Not just shiro. But his worthyness. Hes a fighter. A survivor. A mess. But hes strong.

Lance has qualities of both. Flirty and charming. Generous and a family lover. Fun loving, but knows when to be serious. Hes strong and witted. Intelligent beyond what others think of him. Responsible inna way that shows hes growing. Young, and afraid. Afraid and fearful of it all. But willing to do what is best for the team.

The red lion is tempermental and seeks out paladins that he feels will be able to trust. It take ssome time because he himself has some self doubt, which is something he can bond over and work on with Lance. The two bonded quickly. After what happened with Alfor. He fet he was doing things wrong and wants his paladins to trust him. Thsi means reaching out for a better bond, and faster.

The red lion is guardian of the fire. Fire its hot and dangerous and scary. But it also brings light and warmth, helps make food, and it gives signs of life (fire needs oxygen, so do humans, and then also the fact that fires are used as signals to show that there are people there in like getting lost situations and whatnot) and is important in not only humanities past, but very lonely to be symbolic in many different cultures of many different species.

Oh and this is also why the Red Lion is so fast!! Heat particles move the fastest! Its just a science thing lol.

[justmeiguess15]

KH OC Profile Part 1 : Ursus

It as been long overdue that I share the story of my OCs. While not all of them are quite finished (plot, ending, screenshots...) I owe you at least one. I'll try to complete the others but know that, one way or another, not matter how long I'll take, they all will be there.

ANYWAY !!!! Let's start with...

"I'm not sure I'll make that much of a difference, but I'll be darned if I didn't try !"

Wilhelm was 12 when he was called to the Station of Awakening and received his Keyblade. Before migrating to Daybreak Town proper, he was a quiet dreamer living with his family in the countryside, wanting to see many new things but always laking the courage to do so.

His first few mounths were a bit lonely : Wilhelm was never someone to make the first step toward others and during missions with other Ursus members, he was polite and focused. His first real friend was a seasonned weilder nammed Lyra :

The 17 year old girl was the one who helped Wilhelm come out of his shell. While this gal was also mission focused and "by the book", she was also a secret nerd. It's also her that nicknamed Wilhelm "Billy". Their friendship lasted a whole year before Lyra simply vanished. Her Keyblade was never found so Billy keept hope that she was alive somewhere.

Billy's favorite world to discover was Wonderland ! Because he was always facinated by the intricacies of the world/worlds, visiting a place where logic don't apply was a fascinating experience , even if some locals might be tiring to deal with. Wilhelm might also have a small crush on Alice.

It was during a contemplative stroll on the beach that Billy met and befriended Summer, Google, Mio, Dennis and Ethel. Having a friend group was a breath of fresh air and allowed Billy to grow more confident and snarky while still maintaining his patient and loyal demeaner. He eventually formed the Multi-Union Squad with Ethel, Théa, Fulgur and Clover. And it's 3 years after becomming a Keyblade Weilder that Player arrived in Daybreak Town and later became his friend.

When Wilhelm first met Aced, he was intimidated but also awe inspiring. And, funily enough, Wilhelm had an easier time talking to an adult than his fellow teen comrades. That's how Billy became the Ephemer to Aced's Ava. Aced knew that Willhelm was capable of great things and kept encouraging him, in turn, Billy became an attentive ear for when his master needed to vent. That's how Billy became one of the first and few to know about the "traitor". But Billy knew deep inside that something was wrong about this affair. And when THIS happened :

Wilhelm knew that something was wrong because he knew his master and Aced never acted this violent, nearly killing Player. That man who talked about power, worthyness and war was nothing like his master who wanted the Unions to bend together against darkness and prevent the war from taking place.

Despite his potential, his fighting style combining calculated strong blows with spells like Graviga, Mines and Magnet, Wilhelm was a pacifist at heart. Like Skuld, Billy did his best to defuse tensions between Unions, being diplomatic and resorting to his Keyblade as an ultimate resort. Maybe naively, Billy wanted to believe that the war could be prevented, so when he was approched to join the Dandilions, he refused.

During that fated day, Wilhelm ran through the battlefield, defending himself but never harming anyone on purpose, desperatly trying to find a way to stop everything. But he is cornered by Ira and Billy stand his ground as best he can. When Billy thought that Ira was gonna end him, Aced arrived and got Ira to battle him further away, saving Billy, who for a moment recognized the master he once knew.

Despite his best effort, the War continued and Billy ends up gravely wounded. Player was nearby and tried to help his friend. Regretful yet fulfilled for the life he lived, Wilhelm draws his last breath, his heart joining the Final World.

There you have it : the full story of Wilhelm from Ursus. But for those who wants a peak in my crazy brain...

"Crack" adition : When given the choice to move on, join the Sleeping Realm or reincarnate, Wilhelm decided to reincarnate as this guy :

Yay, yay, it is very presumptuous but it's just for the sake of a story I'm writing (mostly for myself 'cause I don't feel confident enough to post it online).

[farsight-the-char]

Technically Thor has full control over the "Worthyness" stuff now, so if Cass does catch/use it, she would not be able use it against him unless he let her.

Then again Thor now has the Odin-force, so he is even more powerful, which puts him on a whole new level of Nonsense.

You know someone asked me way back when DCeased was happening who would win in a fight between Shazam/Cass and Thor, which if you ask me is a pretty dumb question. You have to figure that fight begins and ends instantly with her just catching the hammer.

[annebaneriddle]

Ok, now that's something that's comming from someone who loves Sam with all of her heart: why are some of you guys so pissed about when Bucky said "If he was wrong about you, he was wrong about me"? Because if you think that it was about Bucky trying to belittle Sam's feelings, you lost the point of that scene.

There are a lot of reasons why Sam would have given away the shield: he thought more about it and decided he didn't want all the weight and responsabolities that comes with the shield's legacy (what would be completely understandable, since Steve threw that responsability on him suddenly, without any warning and without ASKING if he wanted it), he felt as he was not ready for that yet (what, again, would be understandable), he felt that having a new Captain America so soon after Steve's "death" would be wrong, he felt that people wouldn't accept a black Captain America (and I'm almost sure that Bucky not even considerated that one, because that man can pretend to hate Sam, but he clearly likes him and thinks the world of him. I bet that he sees Sam as someone who isn't scared about anything and, after what Sam did back in CW, as someone who doesn't care about what people will think about him as long as he is doing the right thing).

Bucky hasn't seen Sam for some months, he has no idea about why Sam gave away the shield and he doesn't have how to guess the reason, so he is trying to understand. He asked Sam, Sam didn't tell why, and he is still trying to understand. He went through a lot of things that made him question his worth as a person, that made him question if he was worthy to fight for. Now, Steve, the most important person to him, has just left him to go back to a girl he barely knew, just kissed once and with who he had no idea if their relationship would really work. He was literally left for a "maybe" (and don't come with the "but he knew what Steve was going to do" bullshit. What he was going to do? Tell Steve that he couldn't go and that he had to stay?), and that for sure hurt him more than he is showing and made him question his worthyness even more.

As I said, he thinks the world of Sam, Sam is one of the best people he ever knew, and Steve is the best character judging he ever knew. Steve gave the shield to Sam because he knew Sam was a good man.

Now think about that: Bucky has been strugling on healing since he came back, he is having nightmares, Steve left him, the date he had reminded him that he killed the son of the man he befriended, John Walker being named the new Captain America and talking all of that bullshit on the TV as if Steve and him were close friends, him having to go back to the fight when all he wanted was peace, the talk with Isaiah reminding him of his past and making him question if he can ever stop being what Hydra turned him into, and being arested because he lost that therapy session.

Bucky.is.on.his.limit!

He is more stressed than any human being should ever be, he is questioning everything on his life and his therapist is disturbing him more than helping with the way she treats him and his struggles (and don't come with the "But she is perfect to him" bullshit. None therapist should ever treat a patient that way. All the real therapists that I saw talking about her said she is a horrible therapist). He has been bottling his emotions and soon or later, him wanting or not, they were going to come out one way or another as either a verbal attack a physical attack or a break down, and when he reached that limit, Sam was the one on the way.

That wasn't Bucky belittling Sam's emotions. That was James Buckanan Barnes reaching his limit. You can see that by the way his voice broke while he was talking, by the pain on his eyes, by the way him himself seemed surprised by that sudden explosion.

You wanted Bucky dealing with his trauma? There it is, so why are you mad? That was a realistic reaction, not the kind of reaction that you read on fanfic.

[starcharmfunzies]

Do you think (maybe in the future where we get new concepts introduced) keyblade wielders may be able to actually lose the power to wield keyblades forever?

Not like Sora where he lost it then got it back, or “it’s gone but they still have the potential to use one” or any crazy mumbo jumbo? When it’s gone it’s gone and there’s no getting it back type situation? Or maybe they have to make a sacrifice to keep their heart but lose the keyblade, ANYTHING of the sort, could happen👀?

I don't think so, since the keyblade is directly linked to a wielder's heart. One may lose their 'worthyness' but they could very well get it back so I don't see this happening

[beautifuldarkmind]

your worthyness and potential are always there with you, no pressure. What are some of your favorite hobbies? For me, one of my hobbies is watching tv, i watch lots of tv shows lol

That's true, it's about remembering that though! I like reading.. just started a new book :) writing.. anything that will get me out of my head really 

[ufedhin]

On viral women and the exploitation of news values in online news discourse

On viral women and the exploitation of news values in online news discourse

1. Introduction

Especially in recent years, online media has become increasingly influential in how audiences receive and perceive news stories. This, of course, can be traced back to the increasing numbers of people that use the internet on a regular basis and the increasing number of people that can be reached that way. It seems that with an ever-growing audience, in order to reach even more…

[esshetic]

Hi how are you☺️

If u r still doing reading please can you do my career reading for me please

Ini AB

Gemini sun

Taurus moon

Leo rising

Thankyou so much✨take care

Hi AB, thank you for sending your question your reading is as follows.

CARDS

9 of Cups, 10 of Wands, Ace of Swords, 8 of Cups, 10 of Pentacles

Underling Energy - 4 of wands

I see that this last year had you reflecting on your life and what makes you happy and your career is tied into this as you want to do work that has a positive long lasting impact on your self and the world around you, so you may be thinking about changing paths or simply trying to move out of your comfort zone to challenge yourself and feel more alive and connected.

Maybe you have been thinking of studying some thing new so that you can make a career change but I am seeing that this is not the answer for long term happiness as the root issue of your unhappiness in your current job stems from worthyness issues and subconscious beliefs that you are not supposed to be happy or successful and that you need to struggle or even life is hard and this has been influencing your decisions. So until this is confronted and heal you will keep on repeating the same patterns. ❤️

[9jabreed]

‘Nnamdi Kanu To Lose His British Citizenship’ – Kemi Olunloyo

‘Nnamdi Kanu To Lose His British Citizenship’ – Kemi Olunloyo

Kemi broke the news today stating that the British government is examining the worthyness of the IPOB leader. She wrote; #BREAKING (NEW) 1. Nnamdi Kanu is 95% likely to lose his British citizenship due to several attempts to destabilize A COMMONWEALTH COUNTRY. Instead of fighting Buhari face to face, he chickens out calling for the British Home Office. Now those ones want to get rid of him from…

[volpestarks]

I will likely spend the first month in Character Creator but yes, absolutely once Volpe emerges fresh and unscathed with a new OC to torture you can absolutely expect a thorough analysis re> WORTHYNESS OF SPENDING ONES €€€

[artfromyebard]

God in disguise

“I am not your pet” The story behind the sketch is the following… There are people who say they follow and worship the old gods. People wo think they, and only they know the ultimate truth. They treat their gods they ‘worship’ more like an accessory. Because it is special, new, exciting, different, they deem themselves better. They worship the old gods like people ‘love’ their exotic and/or expensive pet(breeds). And they also tend to discard one god for a more fancier one, for a new or more exotic deity. And Set, well Set may play the pet for you for a while to lull you into feeling safe. Same as a cute tiger cub or wolf puppy may  be ‘just like a cat or dog’. Until you have to realise you have a real, undomesticated predator on your hands. Set has a certain kind of humor, Set loves to play, by his own rules. I am not sure who the person is who holds him, there is more than one aspect to her. One is the godess of milk, the other aspects are testing people for their worthyness and something dark which aligness with SET. Help me get a new scanner

[pastelgun]

via Best News Website

[starcharmfunzies]

But how does the keyblade work exactly? Riku clearly got to use (another) keyblade TWICE after losing/breaking it. Sora at first was like I didn’t ask for this and it popped in his hand anyway, situations like that I mean lol. Orrr, even if they stopped using it cause they retired, if they were in danger and an enemy swung on them, would the keyblade appear in their hand to defend them (kind of like how Ven’s showed up to save Aqua from the darksides)?

But how does the keyblade work exactly? You need a worthy heart to be able to wield a keyblade. Simple as that. Being bequeathed one (Like Terra did to Riku) gives you slightly higher chances but does not guarantee anything Riku clearly got to use (another) keyblade TWICE after losing/breaking it. Don't be mistaken, his keyblade may have gone through different 'appearances' but it's the same keyblade he is able to summon thanks to his worthyness. Sora can use Kingdom Key and Ultima Weapon but they are not two separate keyblades; they are the same one just with different 'skins'. For the case of when a keyblade breaks that doesn't take away from the wielder their ability to summon a keyblade at all. I don't know exactly how it works since Riku got Braveheart behind the scenes, but my guess is that through Yen Sid he was able to summon a new-looking keyblade (and Mickey fused Star Seeker and Kingdom Key D). Sora at first was like I didn’t ask for this and it popped in his hand anyway, situations like that I mean lol In the case of Sora at the very beginning of KH1 Riku's keyblade was going to appear to Riku, but then Riku chose the darkness so Riku's keyblade went to the closest worthy person instead; that being Sora. Orrr, even if they stopped using it cause they retired, if they were in danger and an enemy swung on them, would the keyblade appear in their hand to defend them If they are still worthy to wield it then yes (kind of like how Ven’s showed up to save Aqua from the darksides)? I don't think this is related to whether Ven and Terra were still worthy of wielding the keyblade after Ven went comatose and Terra was taken over by Xehanort, but rather how through their bond with Aqua they were able to feel she was in danger, and because they weren't physically there to help her a manifestation of their keyblades appeared instead.

[notesonfilm1]

  A landmark noir with a superb opening sequence (see below): we see some men through their shadows reflected on a wall. They’re fighting. The only light source seems to be from a lamp and  the light gets extinguished as it falls on the floor. For a moment we only hear sounds. Then the lamp gets turned on again but we only see a person below the waist. We follow that person’s feet and they reveal a body on the floor. The man searches its pockets. The first man grabs the other man, clearly drunk, and we see only their legs as they leave through the door. The camera then pans back to allow us to gaze on the body on the floor. There’s a dissolve and the body gets turned over to show us it’s now clearly a corpse with a man we will come to know as Captain Finley asking a woman, ‘Was Samuels drunk when you left him at the bar’?

  It’s a great opening, all shadows, mystery, half-seen moments of violence. Who are these two men? What were they doing there? Which one is the killer? Why did he kill? These are questions the film sets up. They’ll be answered progressively and only fully at the end. In the meantime the world of the film is dramatically conveyed: darkness, violence, murder, mystery, murkyness. And it´s got a particular and particularly resonant context. These are all returning soldiers who have been demobbed but have yet to find their way home, in a liminal, transitory space, with many of them not yet adapted to a civilian context and some still processing trauma. The world created is a vivid one.

    Crossfire is based on novel by Richard Brooks, The Brick Foxhole. In the novel the cause of the murder was homophobia. The film changes it to anti-Semitism, newly unacceptable after Auschwitz, and denunciations of which were then in vogue: Elia Kazan’s Gentlemen’s Agreement, made the same year, won the Oscar for Best Picture.

According to Thomas Schatz in Boom or Bust:’ In 1947, Hollywood’s film noir output accelerated and took on a new complexity as the period style began to cross-fertilize with other emerging postwar strains. Sometimes noir only slightly shaded an established formula or recombined a bit with another genre. Crossfire, for example, is very much a hard-boiled crime thriller except for two elements which interject element of both the message picture and the police procedural:the killer (Robert Ryan) is an ex-GI motivated by rabid anti-semitism, and he is eventually brought to justice by a police detective (Robert Young) operating very much by the book (p.379)’.

What anti-semitism brings as motive and cause to a crime film and police procedural like Crossfire is that it´s particularly difficult to prove.  Robert Young, nice, steady Robert Young — to my generation forever Marcus Welby MD– is top-billed but burdened with the thankless task of delivering the film´s message, offered in the most cringey and condescending way possible. According to Pauline Kael, ‘There are condescending little messages on the evils of race prejudice that make you squirm; this is the patina of 40s melodrama’. It´s difficult to disagree with the former but I´m not sure about the latter.

In many ways, the film is an archetypal noir: flashbacks that offer different perspectives on the action; unreliable narration, subjective camera on scenes evoking drunkenness that are all canted angles out of focus, and marvellous to see,;low-key lighting often deploying one source (see above). It´s got a great look from cinematographer J. Roy Hunt; and Dmytrik is wonderful at creating interesting compositions (see below):

…and at choosing just the right angles for maximum expressiveness, such as the way the film suggests the very real threat and power that Montgomery (Robert Ryan) represents (see below):

According to J.R. Jones in The Lives of Robert Ryan:´Dmytryk also chose his lenses to make Monty look increasingly crazed: at first his close-ups were shot with a fifty-millimeter lens, but this was reduced to forty, thirty-five, and ultimately twnty-five millimeter. ¨When the 25mm lens was used, Ryan´s face was also greased with cocoa butter,¨Dmytryk recalled, ¨the shiny skin, with every pore delineated, gave him  a truly menacing appearance¨(p.59).

  Crossfire is exciting to watch. But it´s also blunt and capable of great crudity — not just thematically, as in the homilies offered by Robert Young´s Finlay but also through it´s mise-en-scène. Note below how Ginny, the hooker marvellously played by Gloria Grahame is introduced via a dissolve of a trash-can (see gif below)

Robert Ryan nominated for Best Supporting Actor; Gloria Grahame won for Best Supporting Actress. Sam Levene is the victim. George Cooper is Mitchell, the fall-guy. Robert Mitchum was clearly used just for box-office and is completely wasted.

The film was a B produced by Adrian Scott, later one of the Hollywood Ten. It´s box office success would launch Dore Schary from producing B´s at RKO into his running of MGM, still for  while, the ‘Tiffany´s’ of the studio.  It´s the product of progressive filmmakers then at RKO who wanted to make a difference (Schary, Scott, Dmytryk) and was praised for it´s worthyness. But it was also , one of a series of films that led to the famous saying, ‘if you want to send a message, use Western Union.’

To say that it´s a landmark is not to say that it´s great.

  José Arroyo

    j

  Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947) A landmark noir with a superb opening sequence (see below): we see some men through their shadows reflected on a wall.

[lingchung]

What Vs Why

I rarely ever feel dis-empowered at work. The company treats me well, I work for great bosses, and I like the company culture.

Even so, as someone who generally enjoys her corporate job, I had a disenchanting moment.

Management made a move pertaining to me. In explaining the change, they conveyed the “what” and not the “why”.

I felt left out of the decision-making process. Yes, as an employee, I don’t always get a say. But at least tell me ‘why’ you’re doing this. Don’t just tell me “what”. 

Career development should be collaborative. If a move derails from our previous discussions, I need to understand why. 

I was so demotivated, which is very rare when it comes to work. 

I chatted with my boss about it and shared precisely the above (and more). I have tremendous respect for our management team and 100% believe the handle was just an oversight. 

However, I couldn’t help but recall what I’ve read in Ben Horowitz’s book, Hard Things about Hard Things:

Tell things like it is

If you run a company, you will experience overwhelming psychological pressure to be overly positive. Stand up to the pressures, face your fear, and say things like they are. Breed trust worthyness and the more people working on the problems, the better.

A healthy company culture encourages people to share bad news. A company that discusses its problems freely and openly can quickly solve them. A company that covers up its problems frustrates everyone involved.

In fact, if management had told me they needed me to step up to help resolve an organizational issue, I would have felt a sense of purpose beyond myself. 

Now, that would have been motivating.

[jackson38toh]

Is ‘ungrateful’ the new ‘uppity’?

Q: The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb says “ungrateful” is the new “uppity,” citing its use to condemn wealthy black athletes who take a knee to protest police brutality. Any comment?

A: In his article, Cobb mentions a tweet by Joe Walsh, a conservative talk-show host and former Republican congressman from Illinois:

“Stevie Wonder began a performance in Central Park last night by taking a knee, prompting Congressman Joe Walsh to tweet that Wonder was ‘another ungrateful black multi-millionaire.’ Ungrateful is the new uppity.”

The word “ungrateful” (not feeling or showing gratitude) has been used a lot lately to criticize protesting African-American athletes, along with quite a few other disparaging terms.

For example, a widely circulated post by Breitbart News on Facebook calls the protesters “a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates.”

However, the use of “ungrateful” to criticize blacks isn’t especially new. It’s been used that way at least as far back as the mid-1800s.

The earliest example we’ve seen is from British Guiana: Demerara After Fifteen Years of Freedom, an 1853 book by John Brummell, a land owner in the Demerara region of the British colony:

“Even now, when the British nation, disappointed at the results of Emancipation in the West Indies, plainly demand that the lazy and ungrateful negro, should not be allowed to relapse into barbarism.”

And an article in the May 1864 issue of the Christian Examiner, an American journal, uses the term in predicting the reaction of plantation owners to the freeing of slaves at the end of the Civil War.

The writer says the planters will complain “that emancipation has been the ruin of the South; that the lazy and ungrateful negro chooses to earn a competency on his own soil.”

But how is “ungrateful” being used in that 1864 example? Did the writer really believe that plantation owners would think their former slaves should feel gratitude for being enslaved?

We suspect that the term is being used here in the sense of “uppity” (arrogant or conceited), a word that showed up later in the 19th century.

The first OED citation for “uppity” is from Uncle Remus, Joel C. Harris’s 1881 collection of African-American folk tales. (An earlier term, “uppish,” also means conceited or stuck up.)

Uncle Remus, the fictional black narrator of the stories, uses “uppity” for a stuck-up sparrow that tattles on Brer Fox: “Hit wuz wunner deze yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck.”

Uncle Remus also uses “uppity” to describe Brer Rabbit, Brer Rooster, and a flighty black maid, Tildy.

In a few years, the word “uppity” was being used in mainstream newspapers without racial overtones, according to our searches of NewsBank databases.

The March 20, 1886, issue of the Macon (GA) Telegraph, for example, describes how a woman was tricked into pulling the bell-line to stop a train. When the conductor questions her, the woman says “you needn’t git so uppity.”

And the Jan. 23, 1888, Duluth (MN) Daily News has an account about a merchant in a town who “becomes a little uppity and bigity, and so he moves to the city.”

Of course the term has long been used to disparage African-Americans. The OED cites this example from Frederick Lewis Allen’s 1952 social history The Big Change:

“The effect of the automobile revolution was especially noticeable in the South, where one began to hear whites complaining about ‘uppity niggers’ on the highways, where there was no Jim Crow.”

And we’ll add a comment by Rush Limbaugh, who said that Michelle Obama was booed at a NASCAR event because the crowd didn’t like her travel spending and her campaign for healthy living.

“NASCAR people understand that’s a little bit of a waste,” Limbaugh said on a Nov. 21, 2011, broadcast of his radio show. “They understand it’s a little bit of uppity-ism.”

Getting back to your question, is “ungrateful” being used now in the sense of “uppity”?

Well, Joe Walsh, the talk-show host, does seem to be using it that way. But some other critics of protesting black athletes may be using it in the sense of unpatriotic.

For example, Denise Rohan, national commander of the American Legion, called the NFL protests “misguided and ungrateful.”

“There are many ways to protest, but the national anthem should be our moment to stand together as one UNITED States of America,” she said in a statement.

As for the etymology here, the words “grateful” and “ungrateful” ultimately come from grātus, classical Latin for agreeable, pleasing, popular, and thankful.

In fact, the word “grateful” meant both agreeable and thankful when it showed up in English in the mid-1500s. Similarly, “ungrateful” once meant disagreeable as well as not feeling or showing gratitude.

The earliest example for “ungrateful” in the OED uses the term in the sense of not feeling or showing gratitude:

“The Macedons … confessyng them selues bothe wicked and vngrateful, for depriuynge him of anye name wherof he was worthye.” (From John Brende’s 1553 translation of a work by the Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus.)

The first citation for “ungrateful” used to mean disagreeable is from “Orchestra,” a 1596 poem by John Davies about dancing:

“How shee illudes with all the Art she can, / Th’vngratefull loue which other Lords began.” (We’ve expanded the citation to add context).

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