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Originally posted by bigbad
My favorite example of the stupidity of political correctness is reading about someone who said Nelson Mandela was one of the greatest African-Americans ever.
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Exactly. Not only is it inaccurate, it's insulting to Mandela. We should say he's one of the greatest PEOPLE ever. Otherwise, it's as though we're saying "Yeah, he's great when you compare him with other black people, but stacked up against the rest of the population, he's not so big a deal."