• AdelleChattre
    +9

    We went from accurate words like "disabled," "handicapped," even "retarded" to "special" and now to "gifted."

    Sez who?

    Then also, you can't call a black person "black;" you have to call them "African American" even if they're from Europe.

    Sez who?

    • redalastor
      +8

      Says one crazy person somewhere so it obviously validates all of my prejudices.

      That's how it works on the net; find a bona fides straw man and you can ignore all the crops.

      • AdelleChattre
        +5

        “‘Correctness’ for me, but none for thee,” is how it goes, apparently.