by Carl Knight

Created on: April 29, 2008

Nothing survives a politically correct world. Not the ceaseless traffic, not the sands in the Sahara. Nothing lives past it.
Quibbling over a word chokes the sentence in which the word lives.
The terms "idiot" and "moron" used to be clinical terms describing, accurately, people in low IQ ranges. People who are content to slam their heads against the wall all day or pull their prone bodies down a hallway floor with one hand. But the terms became popular slang, so, nowadays when you apply the term, clinically, accurately, to the kind of president who launders money through the American people in the guise of a "tax bonus" all the while knowing most of it is coming right back to the oil companies when it's spent feeding the family car, people assume you're just being rude.

I don't waste my time hunting for the sanitized version of what I want to say. If it's a statement of accuracy, then it's politically correct enough. Read the sentence. Examine and digest the content. If you're quick to quibble on a word, then you're not interested in what's being said. Go read something else. Something safe, sanitized and unoffensive. You're not the person I'm writing to, anyway. You're probably too busy shrink-wrapping your kid to keep him safe from the germs of the unwashed populous or tearing out his eyes to protect him from violent movies. Go on with ya. Stop nagging me and let me talk to the kind of people who grapple with and absorb content. The kind of people too busy thinking to quibble over niceties.

How can you expect to survive a sanitized world? If you sanitize and sterilize everything you come in contact with you weaken yourself. Without exposure to germs the immune system weakens. When you throw out content, or try to make others ignore content by snarking on one particular word then you weaken your ability to think and you try to weaken others, try to dumb them down to your petty level.

The only point to being politically correct is to be annoying. Or maybe you like conjuring up a new term for something so someone else will think you're smart.
Call a dog a dog. I don't care what breed it is, what pedigree it has or how long it's been living in the landfill, if it barks at me and tries to tear my throat out it's a dog.

Stop the quibbling over terms. Stop pecking at each other's words and let each other complete a full sentence.
We know what to call people, we know how to talk. A smart man knows to call a black man a black man. I'm not calling him an African-American, cause it's far too uneconomical. I'll call him a black man. It's easier to say. I also know what to say if I want repeatedly punched in the face by a black man.
Some words are just idiotic, therefore, only spoken out loud by idiots.
There's a great quote here but I don't know who said it:
"It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
I've no doubt that'll come back at me soon. Probably by some nitwit wanting me to replace the word "fool" with "mentally challenged."

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