Rebecca,

It's not that I don't agree with you.  I do.  However, if I did any
of this stuff, I'd be fired.  Being offended is enough for people to
lodge protests; it's the fact that the protest has been lodged
(rather than the validity of the protest) that counts.  Remember what
happened to the guy (was it in D. C.?) who used the word "niggardly."

After the Picnic Day fallout, I am a little sensitive on the subject.
I've also been called on the carpet by an associate dean for telling
a student that she "had to be willing to do the work" in class.

It's a new, and not better, world.
KMW



>On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 11:32  AM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
>
>>When I used the term in passing in
>>class, people objected. They may be wrong, but they are offended.
>>And telling them  that they are wrong does not make them less
>>offended.
>>
>
>Are you saying that ignorance should now be able to dictate just under
>400 years of actual usage?  This political correctness has got to stop.
>  Tell your students that they are there to GET an education, not to
>reinforce wild-eyed misconceptions.  And to lighten up a little.
>
>Rebecca Watson
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