The Culture Of The Smug White Liberal

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184. And my point is that this is word policing, which you say you object to.

But the fact is that you only object to policing the words that YOU have deemed unworthy of policing.

I, personally, feel that if a group says to me, "I find your referring to me as (questionable term) to be offensive," it is not for me to say to them, "No, it's not offensive." It's for me to be a reasonable person and avoid using those terms when I am in company with those people, and to seriously consider avoiding those terms in general.

"Word policing" is generally defined here as a group finding descriptors used about themselves to be offensive, and people from outside the group telling them to stop being offended.

In fact, there really isn't much word policing. There's just people being obnoxious toward groups they don't belong to.