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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
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Subject: Re: they vs it vs he vs she
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Date: Sat, 4-May-85 10:40:56 EDT
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>>"Fireperson" or other groaners *are* sloppy and ambiguous.
>> I mean, should blacks start flaming about an expression like "the darkness
>> of tyranny", and "demand" that the expression be made "color-blind"?
>> 
>> Marcel Simon
> 
> 	I think it would be a very good idea for us to get rid of implicitly
> racist language which always associates black with evil and white with good.
> Really, what is wrong with darkness?
> 
> 					-- Lucius Chiaraviglio

Okay, let's go the whole hog, then!  You'd want to eliminate the
association of "yellow" with cowardice, so as not to offend any
hypersensitive samurai.  And, of course, the words "adroit", "gauche"
and "sinister" would have to go, to avoid any bias against southpaws, as
would the equation of "right" with "correct".  And that would be just the
beginning!

You know, your idea's not as novel as you might think it might be ... less
ambitious versions have been tried by the likes of Comstock and Bowdler.
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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