Would you please consider using the word "respect" (or disrespect) instead of "politically correct"?

[trof]

22. I dunno. It is indeed interesting to watch the progression in terms.

I remember when Alabama had state insane asylums.
Bryce's Hospital for the Insane was just up the road from me when I was at the University of Alabama.

When I was a kid, a friend had a little brother with what we now call Down's Syndrome.
Back in the 40s and 50s he was termed a mongoloid idiot.
That was the medical diagnosis, as I remember.

What we now call 'mentally challenged' (or is it 'developmentally'?) went from just being simple-minded or slow, to retarded. At the time that was deemed a much more sympathetic, kinder term.

Reference to individuals of possible African extraction went from the infamous 'N' word (That which shall not be said.) to colored people (NAACP), to Nigra (Nice try.), to Negroe, to Black (...is Beautiful, Baby!),
to Afro-American,to African-American, back to somewhere between Black and African-American.
(My black friends say 'Black folks'.)

And don't get me started on the whole misnomer of "Indians".
What a cosmic joke to mistakenly 'name' a people because you had no idea in hell where you were.
Indians? American Indians? Amerinds? Native Americans?

Not long ago I asked the chief of the Wolf Creek Band of Cherokees here in Alabama what term they preferred.
"We're Indians, this kind of Indians." he said, putting up index and middle fingers behind his head (indicating feathers) and grinning.
"Not dot-head Indians." index finger pointing between eyebrows.
We both laughed.
PC?
I have no idea.

I guess my point is attitudes, sensitivities, and and cultures change.
Maybe sometimes terms get a little overboard.
Life goes on.