Reading some online
news today (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/03/watch-how-arab-television-reporter-reacts-when-israeli-bystander-interrupts-her-live-report-with-funny-faces-and-chanting/) I ran into an interesting article declaring all the “offensive”
names of places in Washington State. Of course we need to ban all these words
from our language completely. I suppose we need to ban any offensive words. It
has reach the point of the absurd and still people are pursuing it. One of the
places that has to have its name changed is a place called Redman and Redman’s
bluff. I suppose this means that Matt Redman will have to change his name. We’ll
also have to get rid of the word Blacksmith, Blackout, Remove all 8 Balls from
the pool table, oh yes and the red ones and the yellow ones and the brown ones
and we certainly can’t use a white ball for the cue ball anymore because
clearly that is the central and necessary ball in the game giving it prominence
over all the other balls in the game. Guess we’ll have to start changing
disease names as well such as Yellow Fever, we’ll need to start changing the
names of bugs and animals as well after all it’s not fair to call them “black
ants” or “red ants”. How far are we going to have to take this so no one has
the slightest chance to be offended? Will astronomers have to do away with red
stars?
I wonder will baseball
have to do away with the shortstop, and
can’t use shortcut anymore because of
deference to little people, er, midgets, er dwarfs, argh yet another faux pas.
We’re clearly going to
need to come up with new sentence structure, because every sentence has a
subject in it and that harkens back to slavery. How DARE THEY?! This just shows
how much every nation is centered on slavery! Someone needs to put a stop to
this kind of use in language. It isn’t fair to constantly be using subjects
like that!
Maybe they were mad
about Redman Washington because it had the word “man” in it. But then that
brings up another can of worms. Of course if we’re going to do away with “man”
holes, Congress”man” Chairman, and the like, then don’t we need to do the same
with other languages were every noun is either masculine or feminine. It’s not
fair that a house in Spanish is feminine but a car is masculine; so will they
have to start calling it “Caso” and “Cara”. Clearly other nationalities have far
more of a problem to deal with than we do.
At what point are
reasonable people going to start standing up to this politically correct
madness? When will we say enough is enough? The writer is mad about Coon Creek
and Coon Bay, don’t they realize that coon is short for raccoon, but then we
can’t denigrate those little critters!
I guess we'll also have to rename the Black Hills of North Dakota, especially because they're also known as the "badlands" Can't have that can we? If we allow even one of these names to evade the vigilant gaze of the politically correct speech police to go uncorrected where will it stop.
It is clear from the article lnked above that we need to have every name, river, valley, city, noun, and any other place holder reviewed and have those names all changed at once. We dare not risk the slightest offence, or as they are calling them now, micro-aggression.
Have we lost our minds and our guts to at least use words!
The American people once a mighty and proud people always willing to speak their mind and use their freedom of speech have no become afraid to even use colors in their speech or words with double meaning because it has become assumed to be the negative meaning that is always intended. People wake up and take your freedom back. This is not to say we should say things just to be offensive, but since when to people have a RIGHT not to be offended? To my knowledge this is neither a human right nor a right in the constitution. Does anyone really think they can get through life without being offended or without offending others? Are we always to be at the mercy of those who wish to take offense at the slightest misstep in your words?
