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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Yeah, I know, there is no such thing. But it is the way of the world today to not hurt anyones feeling, and God help you if you do. Oops. Sorry. 
Aw crap, I swore I would stay away from here. Durn you mobileread! |
Can't be done. Period. Can ... not ... be .... done. All you have to do is accidentally sit with the soles of your feet facing Mecca and you've gone and upset whole countries worth of people.
The whole politically correct fad just cracks me up. Honestly "African-American"?? If I see someone who has very dark skin, I'm supposed to just assume the person is an American?? What if they're English or French??
Faced with a group of men, all of whom resemble Woody Allen, except for the one guy who looks like Denzel Washington, I am not pointing him out as an "African-American" .... I am pointing him out as the "stone fox" in the group. No, actually, I'd probably just point and drool and go humadahumadahumada!!!
Wonder what I'm supposed to be?? I suppose I'd go with Anglo-American, but then that does a disservice to those of my ancestors who were from (1) Germany, (2) Holland, (3) France, (4) Scotland, (5) Wales, (6) Denmark, (7) Sweden ... the list is endless. Go back far enough and I'm reasonably certain I could scrape up a few genes from the African continent.
"Topic neutrality" is censorship pure and simple. I much prefer people who are secure in their ethnicity and their faith, and don't see the need to take offense at every third reference to something that could remotely be considered non-PC.
Their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelled of elderberries, and I fart in their general direction.
