The "PC" How-To Guide

Here's a quick and dirty method to change the old historically-based language into modern, politically correct, secular-based language in three easy steps:

Step one: Pick the word or phrase you want to get rid of (ie "negro"[which is the latin term for "dark"])

Step two: Introduce the new word or phrase (ie "African-American") and use it beside the old one (ie "negro/African-American")

Step three: After an appropriate length of time, claim that having two designations for a term is redundent and quietly drop the old term. This leaves you with the new term taking over common use. (ie African-American)

Lets see how it worked for the term "illegal alien":

It started as "illegal alien" because they were aliens who were in a country illegally. Then the term "undocumented worker" was placed beside it giving us "illegal alien/undocumented worker". Now, as can be seen with the MSM, the common term is "undocumented worker".

And now one of my favorites: "retard"

It started out that some individuals were "retarded" based on learning problems. The thought police added the term "differently abled" beside the old term giving us "retarded/differently abled" for a short while. The term "retarded" was eventually dropped, aparently because it was "mean".

Well it would seem that there are some "differently abled" folks in Kentucky sitting on the State Board of Education:

The Kentucky State Board of Education has recommended textbooks in the state include the secular dating abbreviations of B.C.E. and C.E. alongside the traditional Christian-based B.C. and A.D.

B.C.E., or Before Common Era, and C.E., for Common Era, have become popular among academics and some historians, largely because B.C., or Before Christ, and A.D., Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, are based on Christianity.

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The Kentucky recommendation proposes the use in textbooks of both designations, so a reference, for example, might be notated 700 B.C./B.C.E.

"I would want my child to have familiarity with both terms," board member Hilma Prather is quoted as saying. "I could not vote for the deletion of one or the other; I would like the inclusion of both."

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"Not only will this lead to confusion on the part of the students, but this is a not-so-subtle way of hiding the substantial influence of religion in the history of Western civilization," Cothran told the Louisville paper. "Our schools should not be in the business of hiding things from students; they should be in the business of revealing things to them."

The American Family Association yesterday sent an e-mail alert to its supporters about the issue.

"[The action] opens the door for the ACLU to find a liberal activist judge who will forcefully remove the use of B.C. and A.D.," warned the traditional-values group. "The ACLU types will claim that the use of B.C. and A.D. are a violation of the First Amendment because it dates history based on the birth of Christ."...

Remember kids: Forewarned is forearmed!

Now I'm sure there are going to be some "politically-differently-abled" individuals ("MoonBats" or "lib-left retards") who are going to whine and complain that the "slippery slope" argument is a fallicy. That's ok. I don't care. Your lack of ability in "pattern recognition" is not my issue. Not today anyway.