This bit if Foolishness comes to you from my...
I’m More Politically Correct than You Are Politically Correct Department
Modern World appears to be hell bent on condemning people who use phrases that once were Entirely Proper but now are Entirely Absolutely Obviously Not Proper.
- My newspaper told me about an English Grandmother who was ridiculed and accused of being a racist (on Mother’s Day no less) by her 2 grandchildren because she asked one of them if he sang Negro Spirituals in his school choir. The grandmother was shocked and surprised by the verbal attack from her Politically Correct Grandsprings. She was heard to mumble something about how that was what such music was called when she was young. She was probably thinking to herself, “Somehow African-British Spirituals or People of Color Spirituals does not sound right”, as she shamefully slinked off to her nap.
- In my own life I can still picture and hear my Father (he died in 1966) telling me that I should not use the word, “Nigger” but I should say the proper and respectful words, “Colored” or “Negro”. He was a decent man trying to teach his 8 year old offspring correctness before Political Correctness was invented.
Let’s see if I can demonstrate this pervasive silliness with one of my foolish examples…
Let’s say someone said, “That Hispanic Landscaper...” Up pops a Politically Correct Corrector. Yes, they are popping up everywhere. The Corrector would point out that the use of “Hispanic” & “Landscaper” together to identify such a person is a broad brush implication that Hispanic People are not capable of higher forms of employment other than manual low wage servitude to perform chores that some of us feel are beneath some of us. He would surely ask why the word “Hispanic” was used at all. He would finish by demanding to know why the proper term for such employment was not used, Land Beautification Facilitator?
Back to the defense of my Father... It turns out that by our Modern Ever-Changing Politically Correct Standards what he tried to impart to me was neither proper nor respectful. Does that mean my Father was a Racist? Of course he was not but many in today’s Rigid America would say he was indeed a Racist because he should have known the future.
Now that I think about it, he may have been a Racist because, at a minimum, he should have Googled for the proper word usage before he sat me down and tried to teach me what was proper and respectful.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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Lagniappe: In searching Google for the article I saw about the British Grandmother I came across this link listing...
Looks like Google needs to go take a nap also.
