I Pledge To Never Use The Term…

1. I pledge to never use the term undocumented immigrants. They are in the United States illegally and are therefore, illegal immigrants.

2. I pledge to never use the term immigrants when speaking of those who have acquired legal citizenship to the United States. They are called Americans and have as much right to be here as I do.

3. I pledge to never use the term “lacking a formal education.” The word uneducated or even the term undereducated means the same thing and takes up less space.

4. I pledge to never use the term “Chronologically Advantaged” (are you kidding me?). I prefer “Older people” and guess what, older people know they are older. How could that possibly hurt their feelings? Chronologically Advantaged… sheesh.

5. I pledge to call a flip chart a flip chart. That’s what it is. The politically correct term is now “easel.” Why? Because the term flip is now considered derogatory word referring to Filipinos. What? How vain would one be to think if I am talking about a flip chart, I must secretly mean a Filipino?

6. I pledge to never use the term “African American”. What does that mean? To me, it [sounds like] a person born in Africa that is now American and living in the U.S. For instance, Charlize Theron was born in South Africa. Is she an African American? That’s just nonsense. I use the term American or citizen or hey how about “person”… just like I would for myself.

7. I pledge to never use the term “deferred success” when I really mean “failure”. If a person fails at something, do we really think by telling them, “I’m so sorry about your deferred success.” it will make them feel better? Heck no. The only thing that would make them feel better is if they didn’t fail. Failure isn’t bad by the way. Failure is a stepping stone to success.

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” – Barack Obama

8. I pledge and I absolutely swear someone would have to poke tooth-picks in my fingernail beds if I ever say the words “Petite airborne humanoid which possesses magical powers” instead of Fairy. I highly doubt that an educated person would be offended if I called a Fairy Tale a Fairy Tale.

9. I pledge to never replace the term Founding Fathers with “The Founders.” Odd that some people take offence and find “Founding Fathers” sexist when all the people who signed the constitution were men.

10. I pledge to never use the term “living impaired” instead of dead. My grandmother is not living impaired, she is dead. I promise.

None of the above are meant to offend anyone. There are many more of these words and terms that have now been deemed politically correct. These were as many as I could stomach in one sitting.

Questions: Who in the heck makes these up? Are they getting paid for this? Who is paying them?

Where did the term politically correct originate? According to the Wikipedia:

The Liberian stateswoman Ruth Perry traced the term from Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book (1964). In the 1960s, the radical Left adopted the term, initially seriously, then ironically, in self-criticism of dogmatic attitudes. In the 1990s, because of the term’s association with radical left-wing politics and Communist censorship, the US Right applied it to discredit the Old Left and the New Left.

You remember good old Mao right? So does the rest of the world. His “Great Leap Forward” has been blamed for deaths by way of execution and man-made famines of approximately 70 million of his own people.

Interestingly, the left scrambles around trying to find political correctness, when this term originates from “The Little Red Book”. A book on communism where, when speaking about “Correcting Mistaken Ideas” it says:

Arrogance, lack of achievement after a prosperous period, selfishness, shirking work, and liberalism, are all evils to be avoided in China’s development. Liberalism is taken to mean that one may avoid conflict or work in order to be more comfortable for the moment, while the problem continues to grow.