[lbo-talk] 'Master/slave' Most Politically Incorrect Phrase

[Samuel Waite]

Yeah, I think they're really grasping at straws.  The
"master/slave" thing is the only one on the list that
struck me as kind of silly, and it was met with public
opposition -- thus undermining the Right's claims of
PC hysteria.

Particularly irritating to me was the suggestion that
"insurgents" and "terrorists" are interchangeable, and
that "terrorist" isn't itself politically loaded.  

Something like "waitron", though admittedly it
sounding a bit silly, sounds more to me like a result
of finding something more convenient than "waiter or
waitress", just like "Congressperson".  

"Progressive" and "incurious" are in fact not
euphemisms, but are different, I would argue, from
"liberal" and "stupid".  And I don't know why "higher
being" should be seen as more appropriate than "God". 

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Samuel Waite wrote:
> 
> >"first year student" rather than freshman
> 
> It's been that at the University of Virginia
> forever, and that's 
> hardly a hotbed of PC-ness. The reason is that's the
> term that dead 
> white male slaveowner, Thomas Jefferson (UVa's
> founder) used.
> 
> Doug
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