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I was kind of referring to being in grade school.

It doesn’t matter whether or not the word is real or legitimate. What matters is context.

If I called a black kid belligerent when I was in sixth grade, on the bus through the black neighborhood in my town, I would have gotten my ass kicked.

Same thing with “uppity.”

Its not niggardly attention to the dictionary. Its paying attention to what happens when someone else says something stupid. And they get their ass kicked.

I called it survival during those wonderful days of race riots. I spent many an lunch break getting to know my colored classmates on the fields behind the school.

It was stupid then, and its stupid now.

I agree that many folks are ultra sensitive to things that folks say. But, at least in my area, you KNOW those words are used to incite. Why bother pissing people off when you can use so many other words to describe something.

Just as most folks do not use the N word anymore. Its not just PC, its just lazy.

"Why bother pissing people off when you can use so many other words to describe something."

Because our side needs to quit shying away from confrontations.
Because we need to show our enemies they won't back us down from what we know to be right.
Because we need to stare them dead in the eye and dare them to knock the chips off our shoulders.
Because our side has been a bunch of cowards for far too long.
Because our enemies need to get pissed off, and we need to do the off-pissing.
Because we need to quit apologizing and start kicking ass.
Because we're never going to take our nation back with political correctness.

We have a fight on our hands, and the very survival of our nation is at stake. If we don't even have the guts to use words, and use them properly, in the proper context, without backing down when some PC stooge feigns offense over it, then we should just make like a congressional "super committee" and throw in the towel. 'Cause we'll never be able to muster the courage to do what's necessary to win our freedom back from the tyrants, and earn our birthright as Americans.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

Why bother pissing people off when you can use so many other words to describe something.

I agree with you, when the offense is gratuitous it is difficult to condone.

However, we must keep in mind that the offense can be rational, one might even say, "objective" or the offense can be irrational, the product of ignorance, self absorbed, subjective in the extreme, or even contrived.

For example, consider the use of the word "niggardly" as it was properly and quite inoffensively used by members of the City Council to refer to budget funding provisions and was perfectly proper in the context, having no conceivable inference whatever as a racial slur. The offense which was taken was derived purely out of ignorance. Yet, those who were offended in the their ignorance had their way and the innocent who uttered the word was forced to capitulate. This climbdown was required even though a full explanation was made exonerating the utterer of the word. Political correctness once again prevailed over reason.

When the offense is ill considered and especially when contrived for political advantage, it must be resisted. The question is whether we should condone and even defend its gratuitous use in order to protect the language from depredations by the left?

Canada and Europe have shown us the tyranny which inevitably comes at the bottom of this slippery slope. These areas have criminalized giving offense, worse, the offense is subjective. Canada, at least, is reportedly contemplating repealing this invidious statute and no one would be more pleased that Marc Stein.

He who controls the language ultimately controls the culture and eventually controls our politics.