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Quote by: Strange Dreamer I have never felt it was fair of valid to treat anyone as a second class citizen, but that isn't the point I was trying to make here. What I am trying to get to is that attempting to improve your image by creating a new association with something that has a previously had a popular/healthy/positive/good meaning attatched to it has a distinct potential to backfire. That in turn ends up changing the thing you were trying to use into something else entirely. |
And what I'm saying, Dreamer, is that whether you felt it was valid or not, that was the facts of life for several minority groups. And I'm saying that if they want to create a new association where none existed -- after all, there were no terms you could use that didn't carry the old negative connections; negro or colored, homo, queer, Mexican, whatever -- then by gawd, why not let them try it. If your image is universally and unfairly negative, then by all means, do whatever you think it takes to change that image. How does it hurt anyone? You want to be an Executive Assistant instead of a secretary, have at it. And it's not like english hasn't changed in a couple dozen ways every ten years.
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Quote by: Strange Dreamer I had anticipated that my post may be taken as such, though it was not my intent to have it be an attack aimed at a particular group of people. |
Yes, I'm sure you did, considering that you specificially complained about language as it applied to particular groups of people.
Me, my complaint is with people using the word 'good' when they should be using 'well'. "He did real good." "It went good." Eeek!!! Everytime I hear that, I can hear my fathers voice, correcting me.
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Quote by: Strange Dreamer My assessment of the Clinton and Obama campaigns using 'hope' as their slogan is actually geared more toward the fact that I have yet to see anything I considder remotely close to supporting such an offer. |
It's politics, dood. Besides, given the last eight years, I suspect a lot of people really would like to think there's hope that we can somehow snatch improvement from the jaws of disaster. Gawd forbid things keep heading the way they are.
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