Maybe this is what Bill Maher was talking about ,we have become too politically correct

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68. I agree/disagree but for another reason

Spending a great deal of time arguing whether "undocumented worker" is better than "illegal alien" (for example) may be well meant, but it's meaningless unless the bickering over what sounds nicer is backed with real action to improve the pay and working conditions of the group whose labeling is being discussed.

That's just one example. It's so much easier to fight over words than to see what's going on behind the words - the actual problems of the people, not the problem with what they're called, as well as how it's in somebody's interest that most of population is busy dividing itself up, instead of realizing how much it has in common and what strength there is in those numbers.

So while I don't object to referring to someone they way they prefer - I was raised weird - this constant parsing and combing and fighting is in no one's interest.