Request for member withdrawal

[Herb Stahlke]

Agreed.  It did push my pomposit button.  But the question of
political correctness does interest me.  Has anyone on the list done a
history of the term?  Has it ever been other than a term of derision
for extremes in the avoidance of ethnic reference?  How far has it
been extended to eliminate the basic rule of courtesy that you don't
call people by names that they find offensive?

Herb

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 1/21/2010 01:08 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>And under no circumstances should trolls be fed--it only
>>invites them to get rude and ends up getting others into trouble.
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> And it does no good to push them off the bridge -- they just end up under it.
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> Joel
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