Political Correctness

We've been discussing civil liberties and civil rights. Our topic of discussion moved to the First Amendment, the establishment of religion clause and some fairly recent cases that have been heard by the Supreme Court. The Lynch v. Donnelly case of 1985 ruled that nativity scenes are allowed to be on government property as long as they are part of a larger display (something with reindeer, Santa, etc). Even though it sounds like I'm going to comment about the case ruling, that's nowhere near where I'm going with this.

As my professor (who is a leftist that practically laughed at me the other day for stating it was the job of the parents to watch over what their children watched on TV instead of the government [until the rest of the class started to agree with me]) was describing the larger display part, he abruptly stopped at the mention of snowman and quickly changed it to "snow people". For the rest of the lecture, every reference he made to the Plastic Reindeer ruling contained "snow people" instead of "snow man". How politically correct must be make ourselves before we can't even speak? This is almost as bad as the people that are complaining about writing in red ink on students' papers. This is like saying "inflatable wildlife" instead of "balloon animals". Give me a break.

The following picture is the perfect analogy of politically correct terms:

Yeah, they might look nice. But in reality, they do nothing.


Crispy

Image taken from Satan's Laundromat