--- Samuel Waite <haymarket326 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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