----- Original Message -----
From: Deanna Schneider
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Political Correctness
> Assuming we all want to be nice and not hurt anyones feelings, which is
not
> true of course, but lets pretend, why should a minority group get to
define
> meanings of words? If the majority says that X implies Y but the minority
> disagrees, well, isn't that too bad? Sure X may have meant something bad
in
> the past, but language is fluid, it changes.
>
> -rc
Actually, I think that it's really the other way around. The majority
culture has generally defined derogatory terminology. And, yes, in general,
it is "just too bad" for minority cultures as a whole. In this particular
instance, we're not talking about a word that has changed meaning. We're
talking about a word that the majority still uses in a pejorative way, and
that a minority (1) claims isn't meant to be belittling _when he uses it_.
You're exactly right. That one person doesn't get to decide what "gay"
means.
By the way, if anyone wants to see a massive list of racial slurs, check
out:
http://www.rsdb.org/
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