TKC EXCLUSIVE!!! TRACY THOMAS BLAMES SHAWNEE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY FOR 'SHAMING AND BULLYING' HER FOLLOWING CONTROVERSIAL 'BLUE JEW' COMMENT!!!
Right now we share a morning treat and an EXCLUSIVE quote regarding what might be a trick against former Shawnee city councilwoman, Tracy Thomas, who referred to a Kansas City apartment building as the “Blue Jew” during a meeting in early October.
The roundup from a toned down newspaper article behind the paywall . . .
Ms. Thomas made the comment during a public hearing on Oct. 7, voicing opposition to a luxury apartment complex, Stag’s Spring, proposed for downtown Shawnee. She argued against the apartment’s facade being an “unappealing” shade of blue, comparing it to the Meyer West Condos in Kansas City’s Brookside neighborhood.
“You know, in Kansas City, Missouri you’ve got what the, what people in Brookside lovingly call the Blue Jew, the eight-foot — the eight-story apartment building at Wornall and Gregory,” she said, referring to the landmark building at 333 West Meyer Blvd."
To wit and thanks to this friend of the blog . . .
TRACY THOMAS SENT EXCLUSIVE & RAW WORD TO TKC ON THIS CONTROVERSY AND SHARED HER HOT TAKE!!!
Edited only for clarity and brevity . . .
"Any commissioner can be offended for any reason. They chose to try to shame me--and did not contact me.
"I have a First Amendment right to illustrate an aesthetic comment memorably. I merely quoted my Jewish friends in Brookside--it's THEIR terminology that I quoted.
"Planning Commission Chairman Dennis Busby asked that the phrase be redacted and the motion was rubber stamped by the other commission members. That's unprecedented in Kansas history, including Shawnee back to its founding in 1855."
Tracy offers a brief aside and equally outrageous exemplar . . .
"That includes the recent two Shawnee Council marathon hearings about LGBTQUIRTY--and the NDO which was jammed through without going thru the committee first. (A Soros backed strategy to gin up votes next Tuesday for council elections in Joco.)
"None of THOSE passionate comments were edited, excised or expunged--and some claimed gays were going to hell!"
Here's the crux of her argument:
"To expunge public testimony is a violation of a sacred tradition of transparent government. Public testimony is a legal document.
"This was a set up. Shaming and bullying the opposition to label us as "enemies of the state." Councils and commissions have succumbed to the Stockholm Syndrome--they have fallen in love with their captors. The captors are the developers who fund their campaigns and give them billboard signs on every taxpayer subsidized corner. And the other captors are the city staffers--who fluff the elected officials and tell them the homeowner/voters/residents are the enemy. They are brainwashed at National League of Cities meetings into believing THEY KNOW BETTER."
Now, the debate over dusty old suburban records that nobody will ever read is a distraction that nearly throws Tracy off track. The remark stricken from the record is simply a gateway to the bigger question about the American discourse and our personal, political landscape . . .
HAS AMERICAN ADHERENCE TO POLITICALLY CORRECT LANGUAGE BEEN EFFECTIVELY WEAPONIZED EVEN IN LOW STAKES SUBURBAN ZONING DISPUTES?!?
Consider . . .
Nobody is calling the comments from Tracy Thomas an antisemitic. The roughest criticism is that her remarks might be offensive because the words aren't polite and engaged in ethnic/religious labeling that's more appropriate in a stand-up/sitcom act and not a boring public meeting over building codes. It's clear Ms. Thomas was going out of her way to be provocative but there is no real malice in her poor choice of words. Meanwhile, the topic of a big dumb-ass building and its silly palette choice has been all but forgotten.
The lesson here might be that even suburban, low-rent, forgettable politicos can now leverage PC etiquette in order to gain the upper-hand in the most meaningless debates over inconsequential issues. And so, every facet of American life might now be informed by complex and evolving rules of language that do not apply equally and demand blind obedience for fear of enduring public rebuke.
You decide . . .
Free Tracy!
ReplyDeleteIf they were trying to bait her into saying something stupid. They did a remarkable job.
Delete^^^^^ +1
DeleteHow the hell old is Tracy, I'm 50 and my Grandpa used that term for the building. When did she finally leave KC, 1963?
I see what you're trying to do here TKC and it ALMOST works but the truth is that we should have decorum and rules in a public forum. Even you say Tracy's comments were unwise. If she was, in fact, trying to be provocative then she went too far.
ReplyDeleteThat was far more than trying to :illustrate an aesthetic comment memorably." It was bigoted stereotyping and religious labeling. Unacceptable.
I hope Tracy Thomas wasn't invoking any ill will toward the community but in a public space debating government issues it's not just PC etiquette we're talking about but a more important discussion of how we should conduct city business.
Tracy's comments were out of line, they deserve to be stricken from the record and she should be taken to task for her words.
Think about it.
+1 ^^^
DeleteDidn't think about it that way, thanks!
Her anti Semitic hate slipped out for a moment. Face it. Deal with it.
ReplyDeleteBill Tammy does that all the time and gets away with it. Why are you sexist pigs picking on that old lady?
ReplyDelete"... A Soros backed strategy ..." Really? Can she prove this, or is she just being anti-semantic?
ReplyDelete& "... LGBTQUIRTY ..." Really?
& "... Stockholm Syndrome ..." Really?
This is the woman who called the Democratic Party the "whoreish party". Reasonable discourse is not her strong suit.
Not yours, retard. Fucking retard.
DeleteAs a Jew, I find the use of that term offensive.
ReplyDeleteThe term “Blue Jew” did not originate in Brookside, it was used in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany to describe prisoners who froze to death during the cold winter nights.
Maybe she's just an ignorant, hateful, anti-semitic bitch.
ReplyDelete@6:59, as a Gentile, I find the constant Jewish search for things to be offended about offensive.
ReplyDeleteTake an even strain, Pal.
Fuck Shawnee, it is so feeble, they don’t deserve mention. Just like Byron.
ReplyDeleteEven for an elderly, unwoke person like Tracy, that comment is simply inappropriate.
ReplyDeleteHuh? I always thought it was the Blue Goose. Blue Jew makes more sense.
ReplyDeleteJews have dramatically disproportionate power by way of high station in Hollywood, the 4th Estate and Banking, in those and a few other industries.
ReplyDeleteThat is NOT a lie, but I am sure, because I told the truth, I will be "cancelled" if possible by those cowards on the left, who seek suppression of the 1st Amendment by way of getting the camel's nose into the tent, with that strategy.
It is a light year past time, when reasonable people still sporting what is left of what used to be a modicum of compos mentis, took a far more strident approach to the menace presented by "The Fascist Next Door".
I worked in the "Blue Jew" for lots of Jews (All really nice folks, old as hell and very, very polite. Always paid their bills and were some of my favorite customers. JEWS!!! JEWS!!! THEY WERE JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!). The insanity that we can't have reasonable discourse in public places without the "Thought Police Commissars" looking over our shoulder and squealing with delight when we are unaware of the Insult "De Jour" conjured up by some sanctimonious, Holier-Than-Thou recent Millennial graduate from a third rate commuter college should be OVAR!!!
The communal psychosis produced by the National Psyops initiatives now in place at the behest of Progressive/Fascist fucks is killing this country and that is the exact goal of those same Progressive/Fascist fucks.
Escalate to whatever point, unto violence the conversation when you are accused of crossing some imaginary, nebulous, inconsequential line that with every sin, degrades, diminishes and destroys you and this once great country by way of newly created "sins" from the newly minted Inquisitors/Commissars in every workplace, on every corner and in every work place.
Fuck this.
Tracy, tell them, in real time, to their faces to go fuck themselves and shove that shit right up their fuckin asses.
Free Speech is under attack by Progressives who are enacting, a de facto 19666 Cultural Revolution right here in Shawnee and all over the U.S.
Shut up, old faggot bastard.
DeleteThat's the problem with old people. They don't know how out of touch they all are. They live in echo chambers like this, not knowing that the world has changed and nobody has time for their ignorance. They were right to call her out on her bullshit. If she's too dumb to know that's inappropriate language, she should refrain from public speaking.
ReplyDeleteI am a Jew, what's wrong with being a Jew ? I can't be a Jewish.
ReplyDeleteThe Shawnee city council is pissed at Tracy because she adamantly opposed the Shawnee rec center and the public soundly defeated.
ReplyDeleteConsequently the council is out to get Tracy anyway they can whether she deserves it or not. They oppose anybody who does not think the same way they do.
The Shawnee council cannot handle the truth.
Welcome to Clownworld, Tracy.
ReplyDeleteTracy used to pound me in the ass back in college.
ReplyDeleteLiar, you never went to college. It was retard school.
DeleteCall it the "Sheeny Towers" and listen to them howl.
ReplyDeleteUnless you are speaking about jews in glowing terms anything negative you say about war profiteers, globalists, mass immigration SJW,s and international bankers is considered antisemitic. Because jews own the media and have been brainwashing you since you were sat in front of the TV as a toddler. Fuck in some states you cannot even advocate for boycotting isreal inn some countries it is illegal to even question the holocaust. Have you ever wondered why jews were expelled throughout history?
ReplyDelete^^That's nice. Now fix that hole in your trailer Cletus. We've got rain & snow coming!
ReplyDeleteOh Chimpy. You are probably safe in the ape house! Lol
DeleteWhy is every little so called jew slur some how tied into the so called holocaust - "blue jew" - frozen jews in concentration camps - what a load of crap.
ReplyDeleteIf you are an intelligent and curious person, you should do your own research rather than rely upon the lying government and media.
Nope, Tracy deserves all the crap she gets. Unfortunately, we have to put up with her in our neighborhood. She's a real pain in the ass at HOA meetings. If she'd ever offer anything constructive, it would be one thing. All she wants to do is cause trouble and hear herself speak.
ReplyDeleteBesides being a remark in amazingly questionable taste, it's inaccurate. I know a bunch of people who live in that building, and not one of them is Jewish.
ReplyDeletePull your head out, Tracy.
Discourse conveniently stops when any non PC words are uttered either intentional or not. All on point communication is halted and the perpetrator is dissected unmercifully deserved or not. It not that it happens routinely so much as it happens automatically without regard to context. Another mindless zero tolerance protocol primarily used to silence.
ReplyDeleteDecidedly NOCD, Tracy.
ReplyDeleteThe precedent has been set. Next, Busby will move to include in the record words that one of his Council opponents never said, and that too will be rubber stamped by the sheep. Why not just move to delete from the record any and all arguments in opposition to his pet projects? Or just move to be appointed the official Censor, so that only approved comments may be recorded.
ReplyDeleteThe Council just reaffirmed its status as a laughable parody of a public body.
I've lived next to that building for two decades and never heard that. It's always been the Blue Goose. Maybe I have never heard of it because I am a conservative and most of my friends are conservatives...and KC is a Dem stronghold. Dems are also wickedly anti-Semitic. Liberalism and its identity politics is a horrible, racist influence on people
ReplyDeleteSkin is thin if non existent nowadays. We have the right to be offensive. We have the right to be offended. We do not need a collective gasp as if someone said a dirty word in church every time an offence occurs. Discuss it, argrue it, but don't let it become the subject. Stop and think how much is considered not to be spoken. Only the truly deceitful can skillfully navigate in this climate. Your conditioned compass may have been intentionaly compromised over time.
ReplyDeleteAs an older person I am seeing more and more things that were referred to or called or heck how we did things 40 years ago as now being inappropriate when it's clearly a part of our local history. I don't always agree with Tracy but I don't agree with the actions taken against her as that was the strickening of Free Speech for retaliating reasons not for ethical reasons.
ReplyDeleteMight have not been the best words Tracy could have chosen to use but I remember when the so called original Blew Jew Building was called just that. Heck my grandfather couldn't hardly drive by it and not call it that. It was a modernist building for it's time and most people hated it's ugly facade. I have heard it called a lot worse than what Tracy said. But that was then and Brookside is a completely different style of people living there now. I'm sure many old neighborhood names are no longer in use.
That being said here is the issue I have of the city or any city removing any language or statements from any minutes already recorded from any meeting that has taken place. Sure they made this public simply to lash out at Tracy which more than one elected official over there has issues with. But how often does this happen that we the public never know about? Who decides what's to be striction and for what reasons is it to be allowed? What are the real grounds for this to have taken place to begin with? Remember, she didn't refer to a person, or a group of people, she was referring to an inanimate object that was called what it was.
Sure Tracy could have used better judgement on what she said but the city of Shawnee should have as well used better judgement before striking the words from the minutes. It's my belief this is going to result in the opening of a can of worms the city would have been better off to have simply moved on ahead from with no comment or actions.
ReplyDeleteOy Vey!
Are they going to erase all references to the Golden Ghetto(Johnson County) and Perfect Village(Prairie Village). That building has been referred that by local people for 50 years and now you are going to get offended. The first time I heard that term used was by a Jewish person.
ReplyDelete^^^^^I call bullshit. I've lived in the area a looooooooong time, and I've never heard it called that.
ReplyDeleteIsn’t the bigger issue here the fact that every time Tracy Thomas has something to bitch about, TKC devotes an entire column to her? Good grief that woman is a whiner. She doesn’t mind disparaging anyone and everyone, but when she feels wronged, TKC gives her free reign to rant and rave.
ReplyDeleteHaving lived in Shawnee for years, I’ll just say that Tracy Thomas has quite a reputation here. She was at the City Council meeting last night, griping from the podium during Open Forum about the number of parking spaces in a proposed development project. Yes, parking spaces. Oh the horror of it all.
Quit giving her public air time and maybe she’ll just go away.
There’s a line from the old Barney miller tv show: “I don’t know, given the heat of the moment anyone can say something incredibly stupid”.
ReplyDeleteBad word for Black is "Nigger"
ReplyDeleteBad word for Mexicans is "Spics"
Bad word for Jews is "Jews"
Always found it funny that it's an insult to call a jew a "jew". This seems like a self victimization thing to negate any real arguments. Shawnee is embarrassing itself
So, is the proposed new building going to be an eyesore like the blue jew or not?
ReplyDeleteNice way to deflect from the subject at hand - oooo someone said something I take offense at so now we have to talk about my feelings.
sjws, politicians, and jews are a fucking bunch of pussies.
If somebody would buy and re-skin that building and add balconies, they could make a lot of money and improve the aesthetics of the neighborhood at the same time.
ReplyDelete333 West Meyer (or Meyer West) was what I always knew it as.
As a non-Jew, the term Blue Jew does not offend me. Urban dictionary: "Where one's pants are bunched up to produce the illusion of having a boner." Also, "a Jew that does not look like a Jew." Hey, you vant I should shad up?
ReplyDelete10:45 get out of the folks basement more often and you might learn a thing or two.
ReplyDelete10:53 awesome points
Super Dave and Chuck as always you guys nail it.
9:00 STFU you hateful punk.
10:50 you're wrong orgalthorp wasn't stupid at all.
Instead of the Blue Jew, Tracy should have called it what I have heard it called for many years as also, "That ugly ass blue motherfucker on Meyer Blvd.' LOL, those cunts in Shawnee would then bitch she called a motherfucker blue.
Shawnee is turnng into a third world shit hole, move Tracy while you can before the value of your home pluments. Leave that HOA Tracy to those slimy jerks who are too stupid to wipe their own ass after taking a dump.
BTW I am Jewish and my old man called it the Blue Jew many a time as I remember. I grew up close to it and attended Southwest High School along with a number of other Jewish kids, was a great place till you know who come along and fucked it all up. Look I ain't racist but the blacks ruined Southwest High School. I saw that ugly ass blue building almost everyday full of what I saw as having more bluehairs than Jews.
The First Amendment is "First" for a reason. The Second Amendment is there in case the First is overturned.
ReplyDeleteFree Speech, does not mean, that every time some snowflake scumbag is "triggered" we all have to rethink everything we say.
11:36am: If you keep dropping the F Bomb and other expletives enough times, do you really think you’ll give yourself credibility and change anyone’s mind?
ReplyDeleteI remember the old America, where everyone didn't drown themselves in self inflicted narcissistic rage every day.
ReplyDeleteCirca 1995, I am playing golf with some JEWS at Deer Creek and we are fuckin with each other pretty hard. The best laughs you will EVAR have in your life, will come on a golf course. I don't know why, it just is what it is. My JEW buddy misses a putt and I tell him he can't see the ball cause of his fuckin nose. He pulls out his wallet as he walks over to me, takes out his Amex Black Card, licks it and sticks it on my forehead.
Goddamn did we laugh!
I fuckin loved that guy. We all miss him, he was the best.
No.no. @11:59 - go back up and read the post @9:08 - that person said "I know a bunch of people who live in that building, and not one of them is Jewish."
ReplyDeleteSo you see, he or she knows that one person living there isn't jewish! I guess the rest are.
Full disclosure, I did the DNA test, my wife thought it would be funny to find out what I am, because I was an orphan. Gimme the fuckin Beanie, I am 4% Ashkenazi. And yes goddamnit, the last 4 letters ARE funny!
ReplyDeleteOff to work.
Best wishes Tracy!
12:01 damn dude you ever watch any movies or cable made TV series? Get the FUCK it. You don't discredit someone just because they say fuck. Your statement did nothing to change my mind on anything other than to see you for the pussy you are.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have a clue what the idiot at 12:16 speaking about?
ReplyDelete^^They are smoking ditch weed with Funkhouser, ignore them.
ReplyDelete12:15pm. How cute you are to think that a person gains knowledge or credibility from watching movies or cable tv series. Thanks for affirming that your mom provides you with cable tv while you are living in her basement.
ReplyDeleteLived within a mile of that building for 20 years and have never heard it referred to as that.
ReplyDeleteTracy needs to spend more time with her HOA - that's where we get the most entertainment. Sure - she appears to be kinda nutty and dramatic but that's what makes for a good story!
ReplyDelete10:45, I call bullshit on your bullshit call. I've heard the building referred to as both The Blue Goose and The Blue Jew. Maybe you ought to get out more.
ReplyDelete12:11: I'll admit English is a tough language, but most of you immigrants pick it up after a few decades. If I'd meant only one resident was Jewish, the sentence would have been:
ReplyDeleteI know a bunch of people who live in that building, and one of them is not Jewish. (Actually if my point was that only one was Jewish, I would have said, "I know a bunch of people who live in that building, and only one of them is Jewish.")
What I said was, "I know a bunch of people who live in that building, and not one of them is Jewish."
See? It's all a matter of where the word "not" is placed in the sentence. But keep up with your ESL classes. You'll catch on. Eventually.
1:21: Obviously we run in different circles. I've not been in a bowling alley in forty years.
ReplyDeleteMaybe she called it Blue Jew because she blew a jew.
ReplyDelete^^^^^ I was waiting for it and it finally happened!
ReplyDeleteYES! @1:41 WINS THIS THREAD.
Well done, Sir!
Do you really think anyone, much less one of Jewish descent, would want that skank Tracy Thomas to blow them?
ReplyDeleteThe new world order Agenda has hit the JO.THEY want political Correctness. If you don't think like them .YOU will be chasisdasiz. And Politicians are Puppets. Some one is pulling the strings. The Developers, it's about the money .The Citizens can eat Hot Dogs. Made of chicken.
ReplyDelete^^So very true
ReplyDeleteOK, like the rest of us, Tracy is getting on in years and her hearing (and memory) may be playing a bit of a trick on her.
ReplyDeleteThe building has long been referred to as The Blue Goose -- G O O S E -- at least for the last forty or so years. As I understand it, the blue panels are reversible, so someday it could be the Tan Turtle.
Nope you're wrong Phil, maybe in your circle but not in all.
ReplyDeleteDebate all you want, but she sounds crazy.
ReplyDeleteGawd people need to grow some skin. We live in such a pussified society that it’s embarrassing. My grandparents had a place in Naples, FL and people there were always referring to Cadillacs as Jew Canoes. Big ‘effin deal. They meant no harm. Same with Meyer West being called the Blue Jew. It’s just local lingo.
ReplyDeleteThis column is for speach.
ReplyDeleteThe KC Star won’t let folks comment cause they are:
1. Chicken shits. Scared free speech will offend
2. Their own are outnumbered by folks who don’t agree in step with editorial board.
3. Can’t afford moderators. Fucking stock going down faster than anyone can short it.
4. If people could comment on the star- hardly anyone would cause hardly anyone reads it
5. They might use bad words and offend the very old people who read it religiously... old people make up their readershit
Tracy Thomas just exposed the little mafia that is Shawnee politics. Don't ever disagree with anything they screw the citizens money on. Everybody knows what kind of cluster F(&^ the Nieman road project is taking a perfectly working 4 lane road down to 2 lanes so somebody can scam/steal some Federal money by putting in a 10' wide bike lane for the 5 or 6 people that ride bikes in that area. Lesson is?? Don't cross the Mayor and her little mafia.
ReplyDeleteThe comment isn’t that offensive (or clever) is it? Tracy has many incomprehensible ramblings give her a break if, what, a few words among millions aren’t PC. Tighty whitey”. “ Blackjack”. “Blue Jew” These don’t seem like slurs just rhymes ... damm who cares though is the bigger issue. Thanks, radish
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