lunedì 25 maggio 2015

Politically Correct

There is a new way to say prostitutes and it's "sex workers", a new way to say that people are fat, "horizontally challenged" and bald "hair disadvantaged". All these terms are used thanks to the "THE OFFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT DICTIONARY AND HANDBOOK", political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct, commonly abbreviated to PC) is a pejorative term used to condemn language, actions, or policies as calculated to offend or upset any group of people in society. The term had only scattered usage prior to the 1990's, usually as an ironic self-description, but entered mainstream usage in the United States when conservative author Dinesh D'Souza used it to condemn to what he saw as left-wing efforts to advance multiculturalism through language, affirmative action, opposition to hate speech, and changes to the content of school curriculums. The term came to be commonly used in the United Kingdom around the same period.
Scholars on the political left have said that conservatives and right-wing libertarians such as D'Souza pushed the term in order to divert attention from more substantive matters of discrimination and as part of a broader culture war against liberalism; they have also said that conservatives have their own forms of political correctness, which is generally ignored.

Other terms of the political correctness are:
midget = vertically challenged 
fat = horizontally challenged 
perverted = sexually dysfunctional 
alive = temporarily metabolically abled 
Negro = African American 
Indian = Native American 
Anyone from Central America, South America, or the Carribean = Hispanic 
body odor = nondiscretionary fragrance 
dishonese = ethically disoriented 
gay = different 
wrong = differently logical 
dead = living impaired 
pregnant = parasitically opressed 
fired = laid off 
poor = financially inept 
homeless = residentially flexible 
tall = person of height, garbage-man = sanitation engineer,  blind = visually challenged              Taken from here (Urban dictionay)

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