Posted on 12/27/2011 7:24:55 AM PST by usalady
If you heard more "Merry Christmas" than "Happy Holiday" during the 2011 holiday season, it may be a sign that using "Politically Correct" language is going out of style.
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Not only have I heard it more, but I’ve heard it with emphasis, as if to say screw you to political correctness.
I heard tons of “Merry Christmas” this year. So much that I remarked on it to my husband more than once. It was nice.
As a very young man (boy, actually) in the 1960s, I held a heavy commercial door open for my mom, and of course for the woman who was behind her. The woman walks into the opening as she sneers “chauvinist!” at me. I let the door swing.
My very proper mother couldn’t help but smile.
“Politically correct language has the sole purpose of controlling the dialogue and by proxy the thought processes of the people”
Mr. Orwell had much to say about that.
That’s what “newspeak” was all about...
Doubleplus good!
Hooray, the midgets are back! Maybe we’ll even see midget wrestling on prime time TV!
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