>>Pedants Footnote: Using the ethnics as shorthand for black/asian etc is incorrect usage. We all have ethnicity, mine and I suspect madf's too, is White British. It's also borderline offensive due to use of thee term 'effnics' by people who are just bright enough to realise that Ni**er and C**n are no longer acceptable.<<
You can dress that up and assuage your conscience as much as you like calling it pedantry but it isn't pedantry at all.
It's an attempt to find a reason to be offended when none exists. It's reading a biased and angled view into something that isn't there.
What's worse, it sows the seeds in others minds that it *may* be there, so they start to look for it too.
It is, in a nutshell, what is inherently wrong with this world today.
Pat
Last edited by: Pat on Sat 10 Feb 18 at 15:26
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