The travel industry has coined new terminology for their industry and for the rest of us, a whole new batch of words that we cannot use or words we must use instead of the old tried and true terms that have been used for decades. Instead of heterosexual, for example, we must say “cisgender,” which is actually a derogatory term used by the LBGTQ community to refer to men and women who have sex with the opposite sex, as God intended it to be. Homeless people must be called “people without homes,” which idiotically means exactly the same thing. We must say “People of Color” rather than minorities, and although Hispanics don’t like or use the term, we must say “LatinX” instead of Hispanic. Added to the already gargantuan list of words “THAT SHALL NOT BE UTTERED,” these terms seem idiotic, as do many of the words in bold below, all of which are now considered RACIST. (So, what is new?!)
Being heterosexual and not homeless, neither Hispanic nor a member of another minority (unless Scandinavians are considered minorities in the U.S. which I certainly think we should be because we are missing out on all these minority goodies!), I probably fall into that group of uppity people who are not urban and therefore considered morons. We are not, of course. It is the pushy people on the coasts who make up this junk who are the morons, they and the thugs that make up groups like BLM and Antifa who are nasty, loud, crazy, and aggressive looters and burners. What else do you call them? “Peaceful protestors” only works if you don’t actually know the meaning of English words.
The rest of us, normal Americans, think the Cleveland Indians should still be called the Indians and the mascot of the University of Illinois should still be Chief Illiniwek. Only liberal are offended on the behalf of the people who we once could call Indians and braves and chiefs and whose valor and bravery teams attempt to match by using their name. Team names should be grandfathered in since many of our elite liberals probably find watching sports beneath them anyway.
I find it strange that we cannot call Third World countries the Third World, since most of their populace would never be able to read a paper and thus be offended by being third instead of first, which of course, they are. Well, all the critics in the peanut gallery will be shouting that I cannot call the Orient the Orient either, even though it is the Orient and we live in the Occident. But apparently liberals don’t know this. It must only be taught in deplorables’ schools.
“Long time no see” and “no can do” have been Americanisms for so long that absolutely no one who uses them would ever connect them to native Americans who could not speak English well where the “woke” people tell us they originated. Who sits around and looks up these old phrases? Obviously, someone looking for things they can call “racist
We must be very careful in discussing race, also. When we write about African-Americans (even though many of them never came here from Africa) we must capitalize Black. We do not, however, capitalize “white.” I wonder why? Oh, I suppose it is because we already have so much white privilege that we don’t need a capital letter. We cannot use the word “brown” to refer to the color of skin even though we can use black and white (Oh, I forgot to capitalize black, shoot!). White people are white, not Caucasian. Eskimos are not Eskimos anymore. I don’t know what they are, but they have apparently morphed into something else. And do not, do not say you are going on vacation to discover exotic places! “Discover” and “exotic” are apparently racist. Nor can you have a picnic and tell people you are serving fried chicken and watermelon for dessert. Now it would be hard to find any American who doesn’t like fried chicken and watermelon, but these words which describe foods that are American staples are considered racist.
These are words that apparently “trigger” people. Oops, “trigger” is out now, too, just like “shoot,” because those words are violent. Really? I suppose we can’t say someone is “gunning for us” or has “knifed us in the back” either. Liberals are such weaklings if they are offended by the English language. Maybe they should all learn to speak Esperanto, the made-up language that was first introduced in 1887 by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof. He wanted it to become a common universal language, which it has not. But some people have learned it and taught it to their children, including George Soros’ brother, Paul Soros. If all the “woke” people in the Democrat Party would just learn and speak Esperanto, they could leave the rest of us and the English language alone. We could go on using words in their REAL meanings instead of worrying that someone on the east or west coast has decided that they now means something horrific which we dare not utter lest someone cancel us!
As it is, I’ll use the words I want to use, with the exception of words that have historically been terms of derision. If we stop using all the words the left tells us are racist or hurtful to some group or another, soon there will be absolutely no English words left for us to use. Luckily, I also speak French!