[normy]

Crusade: "Crusade" is a word that to most Americans means 'a noble cause'. It seems this word is taboo to Americans because it offends Muslims.

"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.

[Ken522]

Saying “Catholic” out loud in mixed company seems to put a group of people off ...

[Bobarian]

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.

[WayneS]

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!!!!

[cripplecreek]

My great grandmother called me Saint John the Crusader. (Name’s John)

[ClearCase_guy]

Seems like everytime I mention nostalgia for "the 1950's" -- which I see as a rather wholesome, "Happy Days" era focused on the traditional nuclear family -- someone always goes off on me, accusing me of wanting to go back to the era of Jim Crow, Segregation, and oppressed women banned from participation in society.

I think we're supposed to spit on the ground when we mention the 1950's nowadays.

[fredhead]

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.”

[conservativeharleyguy]

Just buy and read: "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn" By Diane Ravitch.

It'll give you a host of the examples you are looking for.

Plus, it's great insight into how and why a very small group of activists have been able to influence the acceptablility of traditional American language in educational circles, and thus in society at large.

Maybe a bit dry at times, but very well researched material from an insider who makes a very compelling case.

[JudgemAll]

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.