[KarlInOhio]

Where sre all the linguists who insist they are descriptivists instead of prescriptivists and only report what the language is and not what is “should be”? Crickets?

[Dr. Sivana]

Where sre all the linguists who insist they are descriptivists instead of prescriptivists and only report what the language is and not what is “should be”? Crickets?

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing. I have two children who are black (actually "brown", but that's how the language works).

Besides the negative connotations that are utterly legitimate, there are also positive ones. Every business wants to be "in the black". "Black soil" is the most fertile. "Black tie" expresses a level of formality and luxury, etc. I think the left handers have a better basis for complaints. Most of the connotations for left are sinister and negative. Left-handed compliments,for instance. No positive terms for left come to mind.