This is the way it always is. When one our masters breaks one of the arbitrary ridiculous rules we all have to live by, people say “but that rule is arbitrary and ridiculous”. Of course, this sudden attack of logic only lasts until the next time a peasant breaks the rule.
Laws unevenly applied are not laws, they are tyranny.
RE: I could never figure that one out either. Occidental is okay.
OK, I should not lose my ORIENTation next time. Maybe I could lose my OCCIDENTation instead? :)
“I could never figure that one out either. Occidental is okay.”
The Left invents controversies over language in the attempt to increase its influence on American culture.
It’s just one aspect of their totalitarian impulse.
If you give in to their demands it results in you being less free. You will constantly have to be careful to avoid committing a Thought Crime by using the English language in the way that comes natural to you.
This isn’t a small deal because the PC Left works to get these values institutionalized in big business, academia and government. Say something that violates the commandments of political correctness and you can get in big trouble if you work at one of these places.
It seeps into the culture through innocuous sources like sports talk shows where the hosts are reliably against the Redskins name, for the gay agenda, and on the cutting edge of race and Islamic sensitivity.
Very simple. Orient means East. It is Eurocentric because Asia is only East of Europe. If you are in Asia, Asia is not east of you.
I am the the least PC person and I get that Oriental is not cool. Doesn’t make sense.