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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
I disagree, although like anything else it can be carried too far.
There is a lot of language which used to be freely used that was derogatory. For example, it used to be acceptable to call educationally disabled children "retards"... it is no longer acceptable, and I think that's good. Words that are hurtful or offensive should become unacceptable and removed from the public domain. On the margins, there will always be these stories... I looked into this particular one, and all I could find was the same thing that the original poster picked up, from a opinion column in a Scottish tabloid called the Daily Record... and a few blogs quoting it.
I think most people can tell that "black coffee" is not offensive... I think many people do feel - for example - addressing unmarried women as "Miss" is insulting. You have to trust the common sense of the people.
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I may agree with the "retard" statement, because that term has evolved into a derogatory one when used with not retarded people (i.e."Joe (who has no mental disabilities), you're a retard.") However, you may not realize that in in the South, the most politically incorrect place in America,(we call black people "colored" or "black," and that's okay with them) children call every woman "miss" (pronounced mIz). It's actually a mispronounciation of "missus," which means that if they're married or not isn't their business, even if we know if they are or not.
I agree with waltert. If "black" is a racist term, why isn't "white?" Why can't members of minority races be racist??? I just graduated from high school a few months ago, and I noticed that there were plenty of scholarships for women, blacks, Indians, Asians, and Hispanics, but none for middle-class, white males. I want to start a scholarship for just that, but that would be racist. How can you call that racist. It's like slavery (which I am against). It wasn't always just black people, but people sure as hell like to think so. Romans held slaves that were of all sorts of backgrounds, and they were mostly white for the first half of a century. It was just easy for Europeans and Americans in the 17th-19th century to aquire slaves from Africa because we had guns and they didn't.