Yeah, & how'bout that Rodney King!
Make him Man-of-the-Year, or something. He was arrested again, for blowing through a red light at 100mph, and wrapping his SUV around a phone pole, while half-cracked on PCP. Man-of-the-Year, I say! Oh yeah, when this was reported in the news [today], the news reporter said "Rodney King gained notoriety in 1992 by being beaten by LA cops, and the whole ATTACK was caught on video tape". Well, I was almost beside myself when I heard this! Sure, Rodney King was "beaten" by cops, no doubt, but he was NOT "ATTACKED". He certainly brought the beating upon himself, and this was not an ATTACK by the cops on him. It just shows you how far PC has gotten communications screwed up, when the news media says "Rodney King was ATTACKED by LA cops". Hey, I'm no fan of Rodney King or LA cops, but this was certainly not an "attack", in the true sense. As far as I'm concerned, the cops beat him to subdue him, as he was all DUSTED OUT & could not be subdued by normal means. Rodney King -ATTACKED- by LA cops? No. That's revisionist history, if there ever was revisionism, and PC taken to sickening EXTREMES. I think the "news" person who wrote "Rodney King was ATTACKED by LA cops" should be FIRED.
Anyway, dude, you're right. This PC-stuff has gone way overboard. F/I, turn on MTV and you'll get hours of degenerate rap videos glorifying "niggas, bitches and ho's", but heaven forbid if a white person says "nigger",... he'll get berated to no end, or even fired from his job if he made the comment while on duty!
Likewise, talk about PC-overboard, MY MOM, who's in her 60's, looked at my son's 3rd grade class picture, and exclaimed how many "negroes" were in his class, and MY WIFE & HER MOM jumped down MY MOM's throat about the word "negro". So, I came into the room mid-argument, and said "What's all this commotion about?" When my wife said "I don't want the word 'negro' used in our house around our children", I was like "WHAT? Negro isn't the most contemporary word, but it's certainly NOT DEROGATORY!" So Wifey says, "I don't want our children learning that word!" I was like, "You've got to be fuckin' kidding me! You [wife] don't even know what you're talking about, and "negro" is NOT a DEROGATORY WORD. You're fuckin' cracked!" Geezus, people can be SO stupid, and PC'ness has gotten WAY out of hand.
Gee, sorry for the RANT, but this PC-thing has really gotten under my skin. There are countless other examples of PC-gone wrong, but I don't have the time or energy to go into them all, individually.
PC-think is outright subversion & perversion of the English language.
-Guess this PC discussion really hit a NERVE!