We all know the type: the person so determined not to “offend” that they just embarrass everyone — not least the person they were so anxious to pander to. Comedian K-Von talks about how he once cracked jokes about a blind man in his audience. An anxious liberal woman berated him after the show — but the blind guy loved it. Most performers, he said, tried to pretend he wasn’t even there.
The Anxious White Liberal is most noticeable in journalism circles. These are the “progressive” types who indulge in all manner of linguistic contortions. Most black and brown people, on the other hand, just don’t care.
In a poll done from June 1, 2021, to July 5, 2021, when asked, “Which term do you think should generally be used,” 17 percent of people said Black, and the same percentage chose African American, while 58 percent said it didn’t matter. The poll also revealed that six percent of people favored another term, and two percent said they didn’t have an opinion either way.
The euphemism “African American” entered the lexicon of the elite in the 1980s. It enjoyed a brief vogue, but within a few years, most black people just drifted back to calling themselves black.
If they had to.
What’s most noticeable is that the majority just don’t care. It seems that most black Americans see themselves as just, well, Americans. Shocking, I know.
Even when specifically pushed to select a racial descriptor, “black” still edged out “African American”.
An even more excruciating neologism from the Anxious Liberal set is “LatinX”.
In an embarrassing twist for the “gender” obsessed left, Spanish (like many non-English languages) decidedly does not lend itself to “gender-neutral” terms. So the left invented “LatinX”, which frankly sounds like a cheap deodorant for bros.
Yet, the same couldn’t be said about the Hispanic community, which appears not so open to the term “Latinx”[…]
When posed with a similar question, Gallup said 23 percent of people believed they should be called Hispanic, 15 percent said Latino — the male term for Latin — and only 4 percent said LatinX. Elsewhere, another 57 percent said it didn’t matter.
Regarding the Black community, the data seemingly shows the argument around racial labels hasn’t done much to sway members either way.
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Maybe, just maybe, because most people are normal human beings who really don’t care to be racially shoe-boxed by idiotic leftists.
Which surely is, after all, exactly the sort of “colour-blind” society Martin Luther King Jr envisaged? “A nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”?
That’s the last thing the contemporary left want. They want us to be as obsessed with racial categories as an Obersturmbahnnfuhrer drawing up an “Aryan certificate”.
Fortunately, as the surveys seem to show, most people — black, brown, white, yellow, or polka-dot — really don’t seem to care.
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