An impressive display of frank, plain truth without the untruth of political correctness by Drew Cline of the Union Leader. How come that newspaper no longer signs its editorials?
Reminds me of my new year's resolution: End compliance in the use of political correctness (PC) and all its attendant terms! The "developing" world? Let's go back to the Third World or even the uncivilized world. But it'll drive the UNH professors crazy! Exactly.
Gerard Warner agrees and explains how this pernicious practice came into the free West:
Jesse Jackson engaged in bogus revisionist thinking when he argued twenty years ago for the clearly fictitious disingenuous hyphenation (whites cannot be called that even if they hail from the Dark Continent) African-American. He was the least impressive speaker whom I listened to while a cadet at West Point. And I tried to listen to everyone. (Henry Kissenger was the best, followed closely by Dr. Donald E. Horward, a Florida State historian on Napoleon and a spectacularly gifted lecturer, and the wonderful writer of current social mores, Tom Wolfe. Sandra Day O'Connor was very poor, too.)
Negro wasn't a term foisted on Negros, as he argued; rather, it's the Spanish/Portuguese for black and when the New York Times made the editorial decision to capitalize Negro in something like 1923 there was widespread celebration within the Negro community.
I learned that from Stephen Thernstrom's "Just Say Afro," January 23, 1989, in the New Republic, which I used to subscribe to for years until the brilliant and independent-minded editor-in-chief Michael Kelly (a UNH graduate) was fired.
Reminds me of my new year's resolution: End compliance in the use of political correctness (PC) and all its attendant terms! The "developing" world? Let's go back to the Third World or even the uncivilized world. But it'll drive the UNH professors crazy! Exactly.
Gerard Warner agrees and explains how this pernicious practice came into the free West:
I'm even considering calling blacks Negro, a perfectly acceptable word from earlier in my life. Labels have changed with dizzying rapidity: Negro, Black, Afro-American, and now African-American. This is just during my life! (I was born in '67.)There is now no area of life, however trivial or frivolous, that is not controlled by the Thought Police. And whose fault is that? Ours, of course. Our fault for not snuffing out this tyrannical nonsense at its first manifestation. Our fault for submitting to it.
Jesse Jackson engaged in bogus revisionist thinking when he argued twenty years ago for the clearly fictitious disingenuous hyphenation (whites cannot be called that even if they hail from the Dark Continent) African-American. He was the least impressive speaker whom I listened to while a cadet at West Point. And I tried to listen to everyone. (Henry Kissenger was the best, followed closely by Dr. Donald E. Horward, a Florida State historian on Napoleon and a spectacularly gifted lecturer, and the wonderful writer of current social mores, Tom Wolfe. Sandra Day O'Connor was very poor, too.)
Negro wasn't a term foisted on Negros, as he argued; rather, it's the Spanish/Portuguese for black and when the New York Times made the editorial decision to capitalize Negro in something like 1923 there was widespread celebration within the Negro community.
I learned that from Stephen Thernstrom's "Just Say Afro," January 23, 1989, in the New Republic, which I used to subscribe to for years until the brilliant and independent-minded editor-in-chief Michael Kelly (a UNH graduate) was fired.
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