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March 8, 2007
New Additions to the List of Banned Un-PC Terms
The Association of Social Anthropologists has announced that the terms "stone age," "primitive," and "savage" are offensive and therefore no longer acceptable when applied to those stone-age primitive savages who are still around.
The group's moonbattery goes beyond 1984-style linguistic tyranny and into the whole politically correct ideology of persecution and the white man's responsibility for other groups' shortcomings.
The Association complains that these offensive terms have been used "as a pretext for depriving such peoples of land and other resources," and that using them creates an impression that backward people are "backward" just because they run around in loincloths throwing sticks at each other and often can't even feed themselves.
Yelps Survival, a campaign group backed by the anthropologists:
This is dangerous because it is often used to justify the persecution or forced "development" of tribal peoples. The results are almost always catastrophic: poverty, alcoholism, prostitution, disease and death.
Next time you refer to the poor guy in the GEICO commercials as a caveman, just try to live with yourself knowing the sort of damage you could be inflicting.
On a tip from Bill V.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 8, 2007 8:50 AM
Comments
There is a growing politicalization of our sciences and education systems.
This is the beginning of newspeak.
Posted by: Freedom Now at March 8, 2007 9:16 AM
That should be "New Additions." LOL
This nonsense is becoming unbearable. What next?
Posted by: Pam at March 8, 2007 10:15 AM
think hegelian...marx...dialectic...hmmmmmmm...
Posted by: nanc at March 8, 2007 10:19 AM
Thanks Pam!
Posted by: Van Helsing at March 8, 2007 11:15 AM
I had a girlfriend for a while that liked to call me a "savage". It didnt make me want to drink or prostitute myself anymore...but she encouraged the drinking as she said it made me more savager....I was down with it for a while. These days I think I could relate more to Neanderthals than I could to fairies ie. the guy in the post below. But hey thats just me.
Posted by: joey buz at March 8, 2007 1:37 PM
PC Tyranny--so easy a liberal moonbat can do it.
Posted by: El Presidente at March 9, 2007 1:08 AM
The Association complains that these offensive terms have been used "as a pretext for depriving such peoples of land and other resources," [...]
Hmmm, I guess this gives new meaning to the Israeli/Paleo-Stonian conflict. Heh.
Posted by: ZionistYoungster at March 9, 2007 3:27 AM
