An object lesson from Africa
Whether it's a Democratic Senate candidate blundering by referring to the attitude of his African-American opponent as "slavish," or the usual mountains out of molehills which characterize the more usual liberal game of "gotcha" played against Republican verbal miscues, political correctness can be very silly.
The fact is that fallible human beings, for no particularly sinister reason, sometimes stick their feet (or pens) in their mouths. As an example, I cite the first sentence of this news story, upon which I just happened to stumble.
Note the names- and thus, the identity- of the writers. The innocence of intent involved- as is so often true in such cases- is patent. Good thing, though, that it wasn't written by a white Republican from the US of A.
The fact is that fallible human beings, for no particularly sinister reason, sometimes stick their feet (or pens) in their mouths. As an example, I cite the first sentence of this news story, upon which I just happened to stumble.
Note the names- and thus, the identity- of the writers. The innocence of intent involved- as is so often true in such cases- is patent. Good thing, though, that it wasn't written by a white Republican from the US of A.
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