PC police won’t let us use these words anymore

You’d also better not say “long time no see” because that’s making fun of the way Indians talk, supposedly. “No can do”? You may not realize it, but this constitutes cruel mockery of Chinese immigrants, according to Pennington. “Hysterical” is sexist, deriving from the Greek word for uterus. More often, it means “funny.” If I call Melissa McCarthy “hysterical,” I think she’d be pleased rather than offended, but then again the word cops seem to be on a mission to drain the humor out of everything. via nypost.com

Read more detail on Recent Legal Theory posts –

This entry was posted in Legal Theory and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply