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Beware the Useful Idiots

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I’m sick of tiptoeing around liberal snowflakes There is a word that has, in the last few years, taken on special status above and beyond its literal meaning. ‘Offended.’ If someone is offended by something, heaven help the person who did it. The more eagle-eyed may notice that I myself tip-toed around the more natural and previously accepted phrasing ‘he who did it’ to avoid offending anyone. Many people feel political correctness has run out of control on college campuses across the U.S. Unfortunately, some of this behavior has crept into other institutions, from police departments to high schools. A Pew Research Center survey in 2016 found that 59 percent of Americans say “too many people are easily offended these days over the language that others use.” While people outside the bigotsphere try to avoid language or actions that offend others, at the same time, some attempts at politically correct behavior can go too far. These PC terms can devalue the English language and cause confusion.
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I’m sick of tiptoeing around liberal snowflakes There is a word that has, in the last few years, taken on special status above and beyond its literal meaning. ‘Offended.’ If someone is offended by something, heaven help the person who did it. The more eagle-eyed may notice that I myself tip-toed around the more natural and previously accepted phrasing ‘he who did it’ to avoid offending anyone. Many people feel political correctness has run out of control on college campuses across the U.S. Unfortunately, some of this behavior has crept into other institutions, from police departments to high schools. A Pew Research Center survey in 2016 found that 59 percent of Americans say “too many people are easily offended these days over the language that others use.” While people outside the bigotsphere try to avoid language or actions that offend others, at the same time, some attempts at politically correct behavior can go too far. These PC terms can devalue the English language and cause confusion.
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