I've been wondering: what do we lose, as a society, by being unable to speak truth? What started out with good intentions: kids shouldn't call learning disabled kids retards, and people like the sound of "passed away" over "died," sparing people's feelings, has morphed into something quite different. If I'm attacked by a white woman (note how carefully I must put this), must I now tell the police that the suspect appeared to be a white, sys-gendered, hetero-normative woman? But that I didn't know how she "identified?" If I just say "white woman," am I hurling insults at the suspect regardless of the crime? And is this what the founders of America, who were every one wanted men merely for the things they said about the king and his governance, had in mind? Just wondering......
