Posted on 06/13/2012 5:33:13 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Change it to Senator.
How unfortunate that they are merely striking the term... Otherwise US code would shrink to the Constitution and about 28 more pages ; )
This is totally pointless, like many other PC attempts to change the language, for example with terminology for homos. Mentally retarded was originally an attempt to have a more neutral, clinical term for them, instead of just calling them “idiots”, “dullards”, etc. So, mentally retarded started out as a PC term too. Over time, the negative connotations that were associated with the old, loaded terms, just got tranferred over to the new PC term.
Changing the terminology isn’t enough to change peoples’ opinions, those opinions just become associated with the new terms, and then the PC crowd will demand another term, and another, ad nauseum.
Hell, how are they going to explain fricken Congress
And as an unexpected consequence of striking mentally retarted from the code, Slow Joe Biden suddenly disappeared!
“Retarded”
A term that needs to be expanded in its use, not retarded by the ill-educated and Politically Correct elements of our governing class that wish to retard our societal progress, quality of life and global economic prowess.
For me to follow them would be retarded!
Pass a budget, Jon Carry!
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