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Source: Caddie Steve Williams defends using “slave” to describe working for Tiger

While it may appear that Williams’ use of the word ‘slave’ is an international scandal, in fact only about 14 people care and those are likely the friends of this article’s author.

It’s not clear from the article exactly who was offended by the use of the ‘s’ word. If the author is to be believed, the world is aghast at the horrific use of this word and surely a groundswell of anger will rise forcing Williams’ firing as a caddie.  He implies that the populace will denounce Williams as if he were Charlie Hebdo depicting Mohammed.  While he may get sympathetic audience in certain circles, oh let’s say at the University of Missouri, most readers will likely just move on to the fantasy football stats.

As rabidly fanatical as Muslim zealots may be, their outrage is mostly confined to anything which they feel is an insulting depiction of their prophet Mohammed.  Feel free to disparage their lifestyle, treatment of women or personal proclivities, but don’t make fun of the Prophet.

The PC zealots however have a much broader net of unacceptable words, phrases and expressions and it keeps expanding.  Williams’ use of the ‘s’ word was an innocuous description of how he felt about his role with Tiger, but unbeknownst to him, that word is on the growing list of offensive adjectives and nouns.  At the very least, someone should publish a complete guide to offensive words; call it the Snowflake dictionary.  They can publish it and distribute copies so that like minded bearded people can gather in groups and shake it at offenders while chanting “death to America”.  Ok, well not everyone needs a beard.

You can’t make this stuff up.  Only in the mentality of the Orwellian named Progressive mindset can you justify the restrictions of the use of language.  As this tidal wave of PC moves forward, future generations will be robbed of some very colorful descriptions of things as they are banished by the word police.  Gone will be Chinese fire drill, Russian roulette, Irish spring, Greek wedding, gypped, Tasmanian devil, French kiss.  Those are obvious, and in fact, we’ve already been conditioned to use ‘chairperson’, ‘significant other’ and ‘partner’.  We’ve already done away with fat, crazy and stupid, especially if it applies to one person.

But what about “healthy” because it offends disabled people; hard worker because it’s offensive to slaves; “winner” because it’s offensive to losers; and I’m not making this stuff up,  ‘girl’ .  The word ‘dumb’ is rapidly on its way out even though most people’s use of it has nothing to do congenital deficiency.  We expect that Disney will have to go back and reshoot all their cartoon elephant programming.

Not known to most people is the fact that the expression “politically correct” was first invoked by…Mao Tse Tung, he of the re-education camp fame.   That should tell you all you need about the nature of the ideology pushed upon us today.