That's part of the rationalization, but I have never used such speech here and yet I'm called a racist and a bigot.
Using derogatory terms is not the only form of racially insensitive or bigoted speech. One can use all the "politically correct" terms and still say things that are racist and bigoted.
I give reasoned analysis of the problems with illegal immigration
No you don't, you give radical conspiracy theory nonsense. If your arguments were reasoned and rational, I (we) would be more likely to be convinced. Your accusation that we are all brainwashed Marxists is just a shallow excuse to avoid having to make real, rational and reasoned analysis. All you have to do is make an assertion and if we disagree, it is because of our evil leftist Marxist brainwashing.
My daughter was in 3rd or 4th grade and we were talking and I said "Indians", and she said to me very seriously "Oh, Dad, we don't call them Indians any more, they are 'Native Americans'." I was a bit taken aback, but I was like, "Oh, OK."
That actually turns my stomach. Yes, it's a perfect case.
So when Native Americans suggest that the term 'Indian' is offensive to them because it refers back to a time when they were thought of as savages that needed to be either tamed or destroyed and driven out of their land in the face of white "progress" and they wish to no longer be referred to as 'Indians' any more, your response IS "Screw you! I don't mean anything racist by it so just get over it."
I have a problem with "Native American" myself. How does anybody know who was "native" here, whether there were earlier peoples who deserve the name. The term itself is Marxist PC propaganda.
Ok, now this is just plain dumb. We have physical evidence that these groups of people inhabited this continent for over 5,000 years, which means they must have arrived very shortly after the flood. Or are you thinking there may have been people living here more than 10,000 or 20,000 years ago that deserves the title "Native American."
It is a fact that there were native peoples living here when the Europeans arrived here and that our ancestors forced the native peoples out of their land and into Reservations. We robbed them of their way of life and their dignity and now you call that idea Marxist propaganda?
Civilized people naturally have sensitivity to people's feelings, you shouldn't have to be upbraided for not following some formula about it;
I'm not sure what world you live in, but this does not appear to be the case. People are pretty insensitive to the feelings of people who are different than they are. The point is to inform and teach people what is insensitive and how other people, who feel marginalized, perceive the way you speak about them.
We've4 got a team called the Patriots. Should serious patriots get all pushed out of shape? How about a team called the Pilgrims? I see no genuine problem with any of this.
Do patriots and pilgrims feel marginalized by these terms? This is hardly the same thing, Faith.
PC is recognized by just about every conservative as THE Leftist program to control people and destroy people. Horowitz discusses it in that video in my OP. If you listen to any conservative sources you will find it discussed as Leftist tyranny.
So... no, you are not capable of describing what you think political correctness is without using political accusations.
HBD
Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.
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