Damn, I was going to rant away on this topic but Kris and Rince have made very good points.

I'll just say that PC 'laws' do not make me respect any class, gender or creed any more or any less. Respect should be earned.

For example, I'm not going to show any more respect to troubled nations in Africa just because I can't use the word 'Negro' now, which incedentally is just from the Latin for black. I still think they are a bunch of primitive tribalistic idiots. What I would DO, to highlight the word, as ACTIONS are far more important, if I had the power, would be to make sure none of these idiots were ever sold guns or nuclear bomb material. Developmentally they still have a long way to go. As do we....

I just disagree with the whole thing. Nobody is going to tell me what to say or what not to say. Its freedom of speech, pure and simple.

There's a fundamental difference here, what we say and what we do. I still hear 'politically correct' people referring to mexicans, dominicans and 'African Americans' as 'those people'. They still expect them to be gang members and they still protect their belongings when they walk past one in the street! Totally, totally sad. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Looking through their eyes, just because it doesn't sound offensive doesn't mean it isn't. A black man for example. Old whitey still expects him to behave a certain way, sit at the back of the bus and fetch his bags. There are many more ways to belittle him than to simply call him 'nigger'.

If changing words is the only social change then thats pathetic. Yet it seems to take priority over actually giving the Cherokee their land back for example.
Of course people scream 'we bought it from them fair and square for 1000 bucks!'
Show some sense of shame, you a$$holes! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

Hmmm, that post was a bit longer than intended... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

" Road rage, air rage. Why should I be forced to divide my rage into seperate categories? To me, it's just one big, all-around, everyday rage. I don't have time for distinctions. I'm too busy screaming at people. " -George Carlin