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Originally Posted by HarryT
These things can be taken too far, though, Barty. Believe it or not, I was once criticised in another forum for using the word "niggardly", which the poster, in her profound ignorance, wrongly believed was derived from the word "nigger". Needless to say, it's entirely unrelated!
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There have been several remarkably high profile news controversies over here about the same thing. See
Wikipedia for details.
It puts me in mind of a fake 'correction' the Fresno Bee once published, satirizing this kind of PC over-reaction:
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An item in Thursday’s Nation Digest about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts “back in the African American.” The item should have said “back in the black.”
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