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Originally Posted by BrianL99
OK, so admittedly this is somewhat of a troll.
I know better than to think the conversation will remain civil, but I'm curious.
In today's world, we'd be pummeled for characterizing a person of color, as a ... (insert your own adjective).
We surely don't call people with physical disabilities, "cripples" or even "handicapped".
In some circles of government, words like "terrorist" are even verboten.
Hardly a comedian in the world, would risk mouthing a "Polish Joke".
We're not supposed to identify folks, based on their sexual preference or even their "birth gender/sex". Essentially, it's no longer deemed proper to identify people based on their lifestyle choices.
The acceptable stereotyping of our youth, has gone by the boards.
Aren't words like: "yankee", "northerner", "snowbirds", etc., used in the same sort of derogatory way, unacceptable stereotyping?
I read and hear those words every day in The Villages, used almost exclusively as a pejorative.
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The direction allthis is headed is a result of the long standing American necessity of nice what was called politically correct or as I call it lying. As i compare my old dictionary (I'm glad I kept it) to what is online today in webster etc.... they have changed definitions in many things to (IMHO) back up the rhetoric that is being thrown at us.
I think the cancel culture, gender pronouns, and such are nothing more than a generation that can't cope with life. Spoiled and entitled, their parents are the ones to blame for all this nonsense. History is history, embrace it as that history is what made this country what it is today, erase it and you are telling me you have zero respect for everything within our borders no matter what it is.
While all this can easily be stopped, Americans as a whole say a lot but don't back it up - note the last 2 elections..... embarassing