Louie Cayedito wrote:
I don't understand why people get so up in arms about a request that they modify their vocabulary. I will always have the right to use these terms, and there's a good chance I will continue to do so. But, knowing that you find them disturbing means that someone else might as well, so I might choose a different word next time.
I don't get why it's such a big deal. It's really not hard to accommodate these kinds of wishes but it is hard to propose them so I wish people would give you a little more respect.
Because of what the terms are is why everyone is giving him grief. When the ban on “retard” was implemented, most people I believe understood. I have used the word before, I’m not sure on here, and I’m about as far from PC that you get, but I understood the reasoning.
Crack pipe on the other hand isn’t an offensive term by itself. We’re not talking down on other crack pipes. It’s a term for a piece of equipment. The fact that someone would take that to be offensive due to the fact that they have associated a term that is not being used in a particular way and then associate it with a drug epidemic is what has caused people to dog pile on this(yes I know offensive to dogs in piles).
If I said to not use the term warthog, because Its the name of a plane and reminds me of all the people who have died due to the plane’s awesome ability. It would be equally absurd.
It’s the whole snowflake issue that has been talked about for the past few years. People determine something is offensive because of what they associate the term with and therefore they are mad about it. No one can fix what you want to associate a term with, even if it is in not actually what the term means in the context of what it is used for.