"Bruce Murphy" <pack-news@rattus.net> wrote in message
news:m27jnoynwl.fsf@greybat.rattus.net...
> "Monty" <nomeneither@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> "Bruce Murphy" <pack-news@rattus.net> wrote in message
>> news:m2oeh0yv4i.fsf@greybat.rattus.net...
>> > But killing all the people who think that it's a valid word will
cause
>> > a different, and frankly more important, mental affliction to
>> > disappear. Particularly if you keep doing it.
>>
>> It will merely spawn a new word.
>
> Good. And if we kill all the cretins who think that this one is a
> valid word, it will be a _better_ word. Of course, using the perfectly
> good existing words would also work.
>
>> "Political correctness" proves nothing.
>> It merely replaces one word with another. Years ago children with
Downs
>> Syndrome were called "spastics", "Mongoloids" and even once "Plus One
Kids"
>> (due to that extra chromosome). Yet these kids still exist to this
day.
>> Changing the name did not make the illness go away.
>
> Who cares? Perhaps you should stop trying to apply your pointless
> pop-psychology and accept that what I am calling for is immediate and
> total sanctions against the people who think that it is a valid word.
>
>> Same argument holds true for "Wogs", "Daygos" and a heap of other
names.
>
> Actually, wog has a very interesting etymology. Back in the post
> DP-immigration days of the 50s and 60s, it became extremely difficult
> to avoid misidentifying various immigrant populations with similar but
> historically offensive ones.
>
> Consequently, the only background-offensive-level 'wog' passed into
> being.
>
>> Maybe you were a bit strong with using the word "killing" whereas
"banning
>> the word" would have been a better option.
>
> No, banning the word without killing or lobotomising the people would
> merely leave them free to create *another* stupid word.
>
> B>
Gee, I'm soooo glad you're not running the country.
(Cross-postings deleted)
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