3. Abbreviated words for an ethnicity/nationality should not be considered racist

Abbreviated words for an ethnicity/nationality should not be considered racist

Conversely, if you don't like the newest politically correct term, say it as much as you can, but like it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and they'll change it again soon enough. This is a problem, given that these terms seem to be getting longer each time, probably to the point you could graph it and extrapolate out that if nothing stops it, our language will be nothing but politically correct euphemistic nonsense. And this isn't even a new thing.

language changes - it has since languages have been a thing and always will

There use to be blasphemy laws that led to people saying "God" in trouble, but today people say "Oh my God" like its nothing.

At some point, anyone saying the N word to refer to black ppl was normal, today it isn't.

Gay used to mean "happy", now it means being attracted to someone of the same sex.

language changes and humans have been adapting since forever - this isn't a problem, just the natural evolution of any language

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