Posted on 08/08/2008 5:21:22 AM PDT by normy
Remember when certain words or phrases meant good things to Americans? Many of these words have been singled out by groups as hateful to other Americans so they have become taboo.
I would like to see what kind of list of taboo words, phrases or figures who were once positive but which have become or are becoming outlawed by the thought police.
If possible also post the group it would be offensive to and why.
"here comes the Calvary": this phrase has always been a rallying cry that help was on the way and so was victory. That phrase is supposedly offensive to the American Indian.
These are two examples. I would appreciate many more if possible.
Saying “Catholic” out loud in mixed company seems to put a group of people off ...
I don’t want to be a Spelling Nazi, but I have to correct this. “Calvary” is the hill where Jesus was crucified. “Cavalry” is a military unit.
Maybe but I don’t think it is yet taboo. Maybe some day Jesus will be too offensive for the Muslims to handle too but that day has not yet come in America.
My son attends a Lutheran private school. They are the St. Lukes Crusaders!
Their mascot is Knight on horseback.
No one’s tried to make us change it yet!!!!
My great grandmother called me Saint John the Crusader. (Name’s John)
I think we're supposed to spit on the ground when we mention the 1950's nowadays.
Thought police in action using accusations to alter our behavior. It's time to confront these people to the face when it happens.
Freepers are smart people. They should not appear ignorant.
Recently one posted a sentence whose subject was "Her and her fans". I commented: "She and her fans".
I onced posted: "Toe the line". A Freeper corrected me. I appreciated it.
I commented: "Tow the line". The Freeper corrected me. Looks like the correction stuck--better than I realized.
“I onced posted:”
Like a lot of us, (myself included) you seem to be cursed with what I call ‘dexterity dyslexia’ where your fingers can’t seem to hit the keys your mind tells them to hit.
I had a co-worker (an “African-American”) years ago who was offended by my calling MYSELF a redneck.
I agree with Charlie Daniels when he sang, “What this world needs is a few more rednecks.”
Here is his definition of a redneck:
What most people call a redneck
Ain’t nothin’ but a workin’ man
And he makes his livin’
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
I am a proud redneck.
It’s ruined a Christmas carol....
“Don we now our gay apparel...”
Used to mean to dress in brightly colored clothes and be happy.
Now it seems to mean to dress like you’re going to the midnight showing of the “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Some folks take any response short of “Hey, I wanna be one! Hurray for the Pope!” as offense...
The people who control the language control our thoughts.
We have given this over to the Left.
Claim it.
That is why Hussain is Hussain to me.
And I call “liberals” Leftists.
There are no “gay” people, just homosexuals and lesbians.
People are not single mothers, they are divorced, separaated or unmarried.
Partners are in business firms, the person you shack with is either your boyfriend or your girlfriend ...or in these perverted days ....both.
married people are husbands and wives.
Trying to stay plainspeaking can be difficult.
Attack.
I once said in College during a business team project: “we got to attack this problem”.
I was told by that lesbian in the team that we don’t use violent words like attack... but that did not stop her from boasting using and wasting herself on meth on that one weekend...
Black
The movie Malcom X examplifies how the word black must become taboo. I had a friend witnessing a bank robbery in LA who was threatened with jail because he was arguing with the stupid cop that “they were black” and that he should use the all PC hyphen lawyer dictionary word “African_American”
American-Indian
Yes, that’s the wrong hyphen. Indian-American is the right one, because it is offensive to impose America on other cultures, because, you know, we are part of atheistism’s world of men, and not of God, and thus we cannot follow God but culture of men only.
Ah, that reminds me. Can’t use “slave” anymore in technical documentation, as in “master drive” and “slave drive”. The preferred language is “subordinate device”.
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