[fortytwo79]

Who is to say what the appropriate "normal" is? It seems to me that influencing a cultural norm is doing away with what the culture desires. You want to change the culture, not the norms. That's my big problem with all this PC wrongspeak policing. MY normal was a world where we can use terms like "blacklisted" and it not carry a racist connotation, because we were treated as intelligent enough to understand that it wasn't intended to be a racial superlative. This sort of action is driven by people's desire to NOT be labeled a racist. To signal that they agree with the ideal of racial equality. But it just further draws a boundary around segments of our population, and says you're either with US or with THEM. If you don't outwardly signal that you too aren't a racist, then you are THEM - a racist.

I for one will not change my language. My words mean what they are intended to mean. I may be black-balled for doing so, but at least I'm not actually a racist.