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| 2006-12-18 |
"Macaca" named most politically incorrect word The word "macaca," used by outgoing Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia to describe a Democratic activist of Indian descent who was trailing his campaign, was named the most politically incorrect word of the year on Friday by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage. As opposed to Fumbucker, Futhermucker, or any other words I can think of ways to alter, as this is a family site. "The word might have changed the political balance of the U.S. Senate, since Allen's utterance (an offensive slang term for Indians from the Sub-continent) surely impacted his election bid," said the group's head, Paul JJ Allen narrowly lost to Democrat James Webb in November, helping make it possible for the Democrats to capture control of the Senate. It was the word!! THE WORD!!! In second place on this year's list was "Global Warming Denier," for someone who believes that climate change has moved from scientific theory to dogma. Oh please... on the one hand, you have mass graves, gas chambers, witness testimony... on the other, you have computer generated hockey sticks. "There are now proposals that 'global warming deniers' be treated the same as 'Holocaust deniers: professional ostracism, belittlement, ridicule and, even, jail," Payack said. Because they have found evidence of global warming on THE MOON? Eeek! Save the polar bears! In third was "Herstory" substituting for "History." Payack said there are nearly 900,000 Google citations for "Herstory," all based on a mistaken assumption that "history" is a sexist word. Maybe we should have 'theirstory' (for the losers) and 'ourstory' (for the ass-kickers.) "When Herodotus wrote the first history, the word meant simply an 'inquiry,'" he said. How modest... |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #2 You say macaca, I say caca. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-12-18 17:44 |
| #1 Where did "Climate Change Denier" come in? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-12-18 17:17 |