How is it that no one here has yet indicted the Enforcement Arm of the Bureau of Political Correctness, i.e. lawyers (would it be politically correct to rename them ethically disabling legally enabling productivity tabling profit taking pontificators ?) As an unapologetic, unadulterated white male anglosaxon protestant I am often distressed at much of what is now deemed politically incorrect. But, as the father of two daughters, the God father of two, half African-American neices and an uncle to three half Native-Americans, I am distressed more so by those who would insult, denigrate, discriminate against or limit the opportunities of these people whom I hold dear. And often it seems language is a weapon in the arsenal of those would do just that. It seems as well however, as with so many things in 20th and 21st century America, we have taken what was an initially good idea and carried it to the point of absurdity untill eventually the backlash begins to eclipse the original gains. We never know when to quit. I,however, sometimes do know. Thank you Madame Chairwoman, I will now get off my soapbox, be seated and shut up.
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