| Greatwyrm, did you read beyond the first sentence of my post? My argument is in semantics. The word "race" has biological implications, and while the definition - as shown by Webster's - has blurred in usage, it's still controversial in nature.
A Chinese person born and raised in America is more American than his is Chinese, because the major differences are purely cultural - and as such, if any differentiation can be made, it is along cultural lines, not biological. Political Correctness attempts to communicate this, but is haphazard and ill thought out; but the point is still there: Political Correctness tries to surpress discrimination along visible lines by changing the terminology of the game. You don't hear "negro" any more, even if it only means Black, because it has other implications.
Yes, this is only hiding racism and not killing it, but the only way racism will die is when the racists die.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |