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To: LongElegantLegs

Just like all the iterations that “African-Americans” and “liberals” have gone through, each formerly acceptable term came to be understood to mean the culture or belief system that it referred to, and was then considered offensive, and those in that group asked to be called something else.


24 posted on 07/05/2009 12:11:22 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MrB

Exactly right...They can’t control people’s thoughts, so they try to reduce their capacity for those thoughts by restricting language.


28 posted on 07/05/2009 12:18:50 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (It takes a viking to raze a village!)
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